Myanmar election: Vote counting starts after landmark poll

[Little Tich]

Source: BBC

Votes are being counted in Myanmar's first openly contested national election for 25 years.

Turnout is thought to have been 80% in the poll - seen as a further big step away from decades of military rule.

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) is expected to win the most parliamentary seats, although she is barred from the presidency.

The military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) has been in power since 2011.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34756381

[Fred Sanders]

1. The military appointed USDP apparently constitutionally holds 25% of seats in parliament.

The opposition is going to need to win 2\3 of the seats up for grabs to formms government without military approval. A quarter of the seats already permanently taken is the ultimate gerrymandering.

[forest444]

2. Hmm.

Any similarity to our Congress right now is purely coincidental.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. What a joke....

NPR said there are 900 political parties running 8000 candidates.