Aung San Suu Kyi faces months of delicate negotiations with Myanmar’s entrenched army after confirmation that her party won a majority of seats in last weekend’s historic elections.
On Friday the National League for Democracy (NLD) pushed past the 329-seat mark, giving her decades-old democracy movement with an absolute parliamentary majority and a mandate to rule. The latest results gave the NLD 364 seats in both houses; the ruling Union Solidarity Development party (USDP) had taken just 40.
The Nobel peace prize winner, 70, spent much of the past quarter-century under house arrest as she repeatedly fought for democratic reforms. But her election win, five years after her release, means she can pass legislation, form a government and handpick a president.