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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi: NLD has won most seats in legislature | Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi: NLD has won most seats in legislature |
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In her first interview since historic elections, Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC her party has won a parliamentary majority. | |
Early results point to a sweeping victory for her National League for Democracy (NLD), but final official results will not be known for days. | |
In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Fergal Keane, Ms Suu Kyi congratulated the people of Myanmar. | |
The election was the most democratic in Myanmar for 25 years. | |
Ms Suu Kyi said the polls were not fair but had been "largely free" though there were "areas of intimidation". | |
The military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) has been in power in Myanmar since 2011 when the country began its transition from decades of military rule to a civilian government. | |
The selection of the president is not expected to take place until at least February. | |
Ms Suu Kyi cannot be chosen because the constitution blocks people with foreign offspring from holding the post. | |
Fergal Keane, BBC News, Yangon | |
Aung San Suu Kyi was brimming with confidence. This was a leader who strongly sensed her hour had come. | |
"The times have changed, the people have changed," she said. | |
On the vexing question of the presidency from which she is constitutionally barred, she repeated she would make the big decisions while a colleague holds the post, joking: "A rose by another name." | |
We met in the garden of the house where she had spent so many years under house arrest and where I first interviewed her twenty years ago. | |
From the symbol of an embattled and then fragile democracy movement she has become the steely leader of a government in waiting. |