Pro-military party wins Aung San Suu Kyu’s former seat in Myanmar polls

Myanmar’s main pro-military party won the parliamentary seat of detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi in elections run under the junta’s rule, a party official told AFP on Monday.

A senior official from the Union Solidarity and Development Party speaking anonymously because they were not authorised to disclose results said they “won in Kawhmu” — Suu Kyi’s former seat in Yangon region.

“We won 15 lower house seats out of 16 places in Yangon region,” they added, after Kawhmu and dozens of other constituencies voted on Sunday in the second stage of a three-phase election.

The military deposed and detained Suu Kyi in a 2021 coup, claiming she secured a landslide election win over pro-military parties the previous year by means of massive voter fraud.

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