Workers prepare flags with the logo of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy NLD party at a printing house as election campaigns kick-off in Yangon, Myanmar, September 7, 2020. Picture taken September 7, 2020. REUTERS/Shwe Paw Mya Tin
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi launched her re-election bid on Tuesday ahead of polls set for November, vowing victory at a scaled-down ceremony in the capital after her original plans were scuppered by a surge in coronavirus cases.
“Today, our victory campaign has begun,” she said, before hoisting the party's flag at the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters in Naypyitaw at an event broadcast on her Facebook page.
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