Suu Kyi allies to form Myanmar ruling party after decades of struggle


  • World
  • Monday, 01 Feb 2016

National League for Democracy (NLD) party leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves her hand to Shwe Mann speaker of the Union Parliament as he leaves after attending a farewell ceremony at the Parliament in Naypyitaw, January 29, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Hundreds of lawmakers from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy were sworn into Myanmar's parliament on Monday, with enough seats to choose the country's first democratically elected government since the military took power in 1962.

The NLD won some 80 percent of elected seats in November's historic vote, catapulting it to power as Myanmar's ruling party after decades of struggle that saw many of its members imprisoned.

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