The minimum required support to form the government stands at 67 percent.
The general elections were held in Myanmar Sunday in a rare form of open vote in a country where ministry posts are traditionally held by the military. The military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) has been in power since the formal end of Myanmar’s junta rule in 2011.
According to Suu Kyi "the times are different, the people are different," with the nation being “far more politicized,” allowing for a major change in the country’s rule.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi is barred from running for presidency by a constitutional provision that disqualifies candidates who have foreign family members. Both her son and late husband are British nationals.
Myanmar, a Southeast Asian nation known formerly in the West as Burma, has been controlled by the military since a 1962 coup. The junta formally gave up power in 2011, but most of the country’s party leaders are former military officers.
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