8 November 2015: General elections in Myanmar
It was the country’s first national vote since a nominally civilian government was introduced in 2011, ending nearly 50 years of military rule. The opposition party, National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won the election with a supermajority in the parliament. This gives her the opportunity to choose the president and form a government. However, NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from presidency because both her late husband and her children have foreign citizenship. The military has announced the recognition of the election results.
