Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi: NLD has won most seats in legisl

In her first interview since historic elections, Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC her party has won a parliamentary majority
Early results point to a sweeping victory for her National League for Democracy (NLD), but final official results will not be known for days.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Fergal Keane, Ms Suu Kyi congratulated the people of Myanmar.
The election was the most democratic in Myanmar for 25 years.
Ms Suu Kyi said the polls were not fair but had been "largely free" though there were "areas of intimidation".
The military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) has been in power in Myanmar since 2011 when the country began its transition from decades of military rule to a civilian government.
The selection of the president is not expected to take place until at least February.
Ms Suu Kyi cannot be chosen because the constitution blocks people with foreign offspring from holding the post.

Fergal Keane, BBC News, Yangon
Aung San Suu Kyi was brimming with confidence. This was a leader who strongly sensed her hour had come.
"The times have changed, the people have changed," she said.
On the vexing question of the presidency from which she is constitutionally barred, she repeated she would make the big decisions while a colleague holds the post, joking: "A rose by another name."
We met in the garden of the house where she had spent so many years under house arrest and where I first interviewed her twenty years ago.
From the symbol of an embattled and then fragile democracy movement she has become the steely leader of a government in waiting.

BBC

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