Election Commission: House Seat and Development Party

election commission: It won only one of seven seats at stake in state assembles, where ethnic-focused parties performed strongly, according to Metro News. The NLD won its 2015 election majority with the support of ethnic minorities anxious to end five decades of military rule, but Suu Kyi's failure so far to meet their political demands for greater autonomy has fractured their united front. The results from Saturday's byelections released by the country's election commission showed the NLD taking eight of 12 seats for the combined upper houses of the national parliament. The military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, which led the previous government, won one lower house seat and one state assembly seat. In a nationally televised speech last week marking one year since her party took power, she suggested she would step down if Myanmar's people felt she was failing to do her best, a suggestion that was less an offer than a solicitation for a mandate from voters. Suu Kyi has come under criticism for failing to boost the economy faster, as well as falling short on reconciliation with ethic minorities and other social issues. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.