Who is and isn’t running in Myanmar’s election? | ABC NEWS
Polls have opened in Myanmar for the first general election in five years, overseen by the military government amid a civil war. The National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is banned from participating. In the last election, the NLD won by a landslide, but the military staged a coup shortly after the results were announced.
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