Aung San Suu Kyi's party looks set to win a fucking massive victory in Burma like holy shit

[smurfy]

This is the first election since 1990 where Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy has been allowed to run, the first free election in decades. They won the election in 1990 with 58% of the vote but then the military was just like nah fuckoff and ignored the result. So now is their first chance to really win power, but Burma still reserves 25% of parliamentary seats for the military, so the NLD would have to win fuckin 67% of seats to get a majority - shit's impossible right?

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34763273[/url]
[quote]Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy says it is confident of victory in the first openly contested national election in 25 years.

An NLD spokesman said it expected to win about 70% of seats. Party leader Aung San Suu Kyi said: "I think you all have the idea of the results."

Official results have been released for just 12 seats, all won by the NLD.

The military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) has been in power since 2011.

"We are on track to win more than 70% of seats around the country, but the election commission has not officially confirmed yet," NLD spokesman Win Htein told AFP news agency. The 12 seats announced so far are all in Yangon.

The acting chairman of the USDP has told BBC Burmese that he has lost his own seat in the constituency of Hinthada to the NLD - seen as a key indicator of election results.[/quote]

Guess when it's The Dictatorship Party vs The Democracy Party it should be expected but sheeeiiiit

[Cyberdan]

Couldn't the military just decide to ignore this one as well though? They don't really seem to care about democracy

[smurfy]

[QUOTE=Cyberdan;49082074]Couldn't the military just decide to ignore this one as well though? They don't really seem to care about democracy[/QUOTE]

We'll find out in the next few days but there's been a lot of reform in the past few years and it's not expected

[pr00ch]

Arm the people

[DohEntertainmen]

[QUOTE=proch;49082135]Arm the people[/QUOTE]

The state wouldn't want that.

[GordonZombie]

[QUOTE=DohEntertainmen;49082138]The state wouldn't want that.[/QUOTE]

People might arm themselves if the state continues their bullshit.

[smurfy]

[QUOTE=proch;49082135]Arm the people[/QUOTE]

Wut why

[DohEntertainmen]

[QUOTE=GordonZombie;49082154]People might arm themselves if the state continues their bullshit.[/QUOTE]

Not if you delude the people into believing they do not need them, and therefore, not want them.

[Massaki]

good thread title

[smurfy]

I swear to god if this becomes a motherfucking gun control thread out of absolutely nowhere

[booster]

It'd be a nice change for Burma if Aung came into power at last.

But do civilians really need assault rifles?

[helifreak]

[QUOTE=proch;49082135]Arm the people[/QUOTE]

Why do people in Burma not have arms? How do they vote without arms?

[draugur]

[QUOTE=helifreak;49082389]Why do people in Burma not have arms? How do they vote without arms?[/QUOTE]

They don't vote. Their government solves all problems through intense rounds of Dance Dance Revolution.

[Lonestriper]

Shame that the 25% sectioned off for the military means that any constitutional changes they disagree with will never go through.

[Download]

Coup in 3, 2, 1...

[Deunan]

[QUOTE=Cyberdan;49082074]Couldn't the military just decide to ignore this one as well though? They don't really seem to care about democracy[/QUOTE]

They probably don't mind this as much, since they have a number of guaranteed seats as well as a buch of other concessions.

[Zillamaster55]

I wonder what this will do to affect the genocide

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=Cyberdan;49082074]Couldn't the military just decide to ignore this one as well though? They don't really seem to care about democracy[/QUOTE]

It's not expected since the military has written themselves into power using constitutional reforms to insulate themselves, time will tell if they accept being the minority party though

[Deunan]

Mind you, another important bit is that these aren't "free" elections. Muslims are barred from voting and voting doesn't take place in any of the breakaway provinces.

Also the fact that some voting booths are in budhist temples can be considered a bit odd.

[Loli hat]

[QUOTE=smurfy;49082273]I swear to god if this becomes a motherfucking gun control thread out of absolutely nowhere[/QUOTE]

In the Philippines they had pretty much just as much arms as Americans and a dictator still took power.

[JumpinJackFlash]

[QUOTE=smurfy;49082105]We'll find out in the next few days but there's been a lot of reform in the past few years and it's not expected[/QUOTE]I don't know, I mean it's nice to hope for but I just can't see an entity that's given itself 25% of guaranteed presence to willingly go, "aw shucks, well I guess we're not the bosses anymore!"

[editline]9th November 2015[/editline]

[QUOTE=Loli hat;49083278]In the Philippines they had pretty much just as much arms as Americans and a dictator still took power.[/QUOTE]But everyone who was running were all dictators though, I mean [I]come on[/I] bro. Every Filipino is a tyrant at heart, just as my psycho bitch ex, she's from Davao and holy shit I was not prepared for that level of domestic violence.
(for those of you who don't know, do not ever piss off a Filipino woman you will regret it forever)

[leontodd]

Wonder why it's taking so long to count the votes. Originally they were meant to be counted by 2:30AM GMT.

[Lord of Ears]

[QUOTE=wraithcat;49083068]Mind you, another important bit is that these aren't "free" elections. Muslims are barred from voting and voting doesn't take place in any of the breakaway provinces.

Also the fact that some voting booths are in budhist temples can be considered a bit odd.[/QUOTE]

i dunno, during primaries here there's a lot of voting stations set up at local churches

[Rangergxi]

[QUOTE=Lord of Ears;49084546]i dunno, during primaries here there's a lot of voting stations set up at local churches[/QUOTE]

Political parties aren't run by the government to choose the leaders. They have no obligation to be impartial.

[pr00ch]

Disarm the military then

[crumbleshake]

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49082869]I wonder what this will do to affect the genocide[/QUOTE]

According to the Dalai Llama who says he's raised it a number of times with her, she's afraid of talking publicly about it so as to not alienating the huge number of her supporters who support kicking the Rohingya out of the country (but don't necessarily know about the genocide aspect of it) but that she supports them so maybe she'll try and do something about it. I don't think there'll be any more state sanctioned persecution.

[Levelog]

[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;49084416]I don't know, I mean it's nice to hope for but I just can't see an entity that's given itself 25% of guaranteed presence to willingly go, "aw shucks, well I guess we're not the bosses anymore!"

[editline]9th November 2015[/editline]

But everyone who was running were all dictators though, I mean [I]come on[/I] bro. Every Filipino is a tyrant at heart, just as my psycho bitch ex, she's from Davao and holy shit I was not prepared for that level of domestic violence.
(for those of you who don't know, do not ever piss off a Filipino woman you will regret it forever)[/QUOTE]

My last 3 and a half year relationship with a Filipino feels for you.

[Mr. Someguy]

[QUOTE=proch;49082135]Arm the people[/QUOTE]

That worked so well in the Middle East.

[Taepodong-2]

[QUOTE=wraithcat;49083068]
Also the fact that some voting booths are in budhist temples can be considered a bit odd.[/QUOTE]
Not really, when I went to vote the polling station was in a Catholic church.

[smurfy]

Burma's president has now [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34784291]come out and said yeah you've won lol well done[/url], NLD has taken more than 90 percent of seats declared so far