Myanmar opposition irked by slow vote results

Myanmar’s National League for Democracy accused the Union Election Commission Tuesday of intentionally delaying the release of parliamentary election results, which so far have shown the opposition party with a vast lead over the military-backed ruling Union Solidarity Development Party. “It doesn’t make sense that they are releasing the results piece by piece. It shouldn’t […]

Myanmar’s National League for Democracy accused the Union Election Commission Tuesday of intentionally delaying the release of parliamentary election results, which so far have shown the opposition party with a vast lead over the military-backed ruling Union Solidarity Development Party.
“It doesn’t make sense that they are releasing the results piece by piece. It shouldn’t be like that,” NLD spokesman Win Tien said after party leaders met at the home of Aung San Suu Kyi. “They are trying to be crooked.”
More than 30 million people cast votes in Sunday’s election, the first nationally competitive elections in a quarter-century after decades of military rule in Myanmar, which was formerly known as Burma.
Official results released by the Union Election Commission show the opposition NLD so far has won 107 seats in the lower house of parliament, while the military-backed ruling USDP has won just seven.
The NLD has already claimed a landslide victory. In an interview with the BBC Tuesday, Aung San Suu Kyi told BBC her party has won about 75 percent of all contested seats.