YANGON, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's historical general election and peace negotiation process have significantly dominated the country' domestic affairs in the year of 2015.
Myanmar held a general election to elect parliamentary representatives of the next five-year term on Nov. 8.
The opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won the absolute majority of the parliamentary seats, which is strong enough for it to form a new government independently under the constitution and has right to nominate the president and two vice presidents.
Suu Kyi herself also won as a representative re-elected to the Lower House of the next parliament.
In the general election, the NLD won 880 parliamentary seats or 77.3 percent out of a total of 1,139 at three levels of parliament, shared by 254 or 79 percent are in the House of Representatives (Lower House), 135 or 80 percent in the House of Nationalities (Upper House) and 474 or 75.7 percent in the Region or State Parliament as well as 17 ethnic representatives to the Region or State Parliament. (Courtesy of news.xinhuanet.com)
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