UEC frustrates with lack of results

Confident of having secured a landslide victory, the opposition National League for Democracy is being frustrated by the slow release of officially sanctioned results by the Union Election Commission.

The UEC, headed by ex-general U Tin Aye, says it is working with full transparency and yesterday promised that results would be released at three-hourly intervals throughout the day. But by last night it had only confirmed outcomes in 28 out of 330 townships.

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