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		</div><p>Voting has begun in Burma’s elections, with the ruling party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi heavily favoured to be returned to power.</p>
<p>More than 90 parties are competing for seats in the lower and upper houses of the national Parliament.</p>
<p>There are more than 37 million people eligible to vote, including 5 million first-time voters. Fear of the coronavirus and safety measures put in place to contain it may reduce voter turnout.</p>
<p>Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party won the last elections in 2015 in a landslide, ending more than five decades of military-directed rule in the country.</p>
<p>Her NLD party’s main challenger, as it was five years ago, is the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, which has led the opposition in Parliament.</p>
<p>The ability of Ms Suu Kyi’s administration to run the country has been hamstrung by a clause in the 2008 army-drafted constitution giving the military 25% of the seats in Parliament, allowing it to block constitutional reforms.</p>
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<p>Ms Suu Kyi remains Burma’s most popular politician but her government has fallen short of expectations, with economic growth doing little to alleviate widespread poverty and a failure to ease tensions among the country’s fractious ethnic groups.</p>
<p>The state election commission said it will begin to announce election results on Monday morning but it may take up to a week to collect all of the results, some of which will come from remote jungle areas.</p>
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