YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's biggest military-backed party expects to sweep the country's first election in 20 years, picking up as many as 80 percent of seats in parliament, a senior party official said on Tuesday.
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), closely aligned with junta supremo Than Shwe, is winning broadly nationwide, the official said, two days after the election, which has been condemned by the United States, Europe and Japan as a sham to entrench military rule under a civilian facade.
The USDP lost only six out of 91 seats in Irrawaddy and just two out of 105 in Mandalay, the USDP official said. Mandalay and Irrawaddy are among the largest of Myanmar's 14 divisions.
(Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Writing by Jason Szep; Editing by Alan Raybould)
Source:http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE6A600V20101109
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), closely aligned with junta supremo Than Shwe, is winning broadly nationwide, the official said, two days after the election, which has been condemned by the United States, Europe and Japan as a sham to entrench military rule under a civilian facade.
The USDP lost only six out of 91 seats in Irrawaddy and just two out of 105 in Mandalay, the USDP official said. Mandalay and Irrawaddy are among the largest of Myanmar's 14 divisions.
(Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Writing by Jason Szep; Editing by Alan Raybould)
Source:http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE6A600V20101109
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