Two Elections
Two Elections
Elections this November took place in two countries that are geographically far apart, and have practically nothing in common. But the results were in both cases as expected, although due to widely different reasons.
In the case of the national elections, the first in 20 years,in Burma (officially Myanmar; the ruling military junta changed the country’s name in 1989), almost 95% of the 1,157 contested seats for the bicameral parliament were won by the main political party backed by the junta, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), with the rest of the seats being won by other junta-friendly parties. One opposition party that contested the elections won 16 seats, another, three.
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