USDP predicts victory on final day of campaigning

YANGON: On the final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday’s general election, a senior figure in Myanmar’s ruling party took aim at recent comments made by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and talked up the party’s electoral fortunes, The Irrawaddy reported.

In his address to several thousand supporters at a rally in Yangon’s Thingangyun Township on Friday, Nada Kyaw Zwa, a central executive committee member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), said Sunday’s poll would herald the “success of the green,” the background colour of the ruling party’s banner.

“I’m sure that we will win on Nov 8. So we will no longer use the phrase ‘we will win.’ Let me tell you in advance that that we have won,” he said.

During Nada Kyaw Zwa’s nearly 20-minute speech, he also addressed comments made by Aung San Suu Kyi at a press conference in Yangon on Thursday that she would be “above the president” in a National League for Democracy (NLD)-led government.

“In a household, a husband is in charge. In a country, a President is above any other position. The Constitution says the same. So, is there anyone else who should be above the president?” he asked.

According to The Myanmar Times, Aung San Suu Kyi said in Yangon on Thursday that victory for the National League for Democracy would mean “a great leap” forward for democracy in Myanmar.

The NLD leader told the crowd outside her University Avenue Road home in Yangon that she hoped that her party would form the next government, and one that would preside over a democratic state.

However, she struck notes of caution as well as conciliation with her most powerful adversary, the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, saying, “We hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.”

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-- Thai PBS 2015-11-07

Good Luck NLD