Aung San Suu Kyi calls victory a 'triumph of the people'
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Yangon - Myanmar democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday called her party's landslide victory in weekend by-elections a "triumph of the people" and said she hoped they represented a new dawn.
"We hope this will be the beginning of a new era of involvement by the people in the politics of this country," Suu Kyi told a crowd of well-wishers who had gathered outside the Yangon headquarters of her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD).
The NLD said that according to the vote counts so far, it had won 43 of the 45 seats contested in Sunday's by-elections in formerly military-run Myanmar. The party ran candidates in 44 races, and it was likely it would win all 44 once the final tallies were made, NLD deputy leader Kyi Toe said.
"It is not so much our triumph as a triumph of the people who have decided that they have to be involved in the political process in this country," Suu Kyi said.//DPA
