Myanmar military to hand over power to Suu Kyi party

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Myanmar military to hand over power to Suu Kyi party

NYEIN CHAN NAING

Myanmar’s President Thein Sein, the former junta general who shed his uniform to lead the country’s quasi-civilian regime five years ago, said the November 8 polls were testament to the political and economic changes that have swept the former pariah state since the end of junta rule. “We will hand this process (of reform) on to a new government,” he said, adding “don’t worry about the transition” in comments aimed at calming nerves in the country’s first attempt at a democratic-style transition for decades. He appeared sanguine about the resounding defeat of his army-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, which will slip into opposition in the next parliament – due to sit from February – with some10% of the elected seats in the national parliament, compared to the NLD’s 80%.

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