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| Myanmar's President Thein Sein arrives for the 20th ASEAN summit meeting at the Peace Palace in the Office of the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh April 3, 2012. |
Myanmar President Thein Sein said on Tuesday the country's by-elections
at the weekend, which were swept by the opposition, were carried out
successfully.
"It was conducted in a very
successful way," the retired general told reporters during a summit of
Association of South East Asian Nation leaders in Cambodia, his first
public comment on Sunday's elections for vacant parliamentary seats.
Nobel
Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's party won a landslide in the vote, a
victory she hailed as a "triumph of the people" after decades of
military dictatorship.
Her party
won 40 of the 45 seats being contested, the Election Commission
announced on state television, dealing a crushing blow to a ruling Union
Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) created by the former military
junta.
Thein Sein's USDP still
holds most of parliament's 664 seats, thanks to 2010 elections held
while Suu Kyi was in detention and her party boycotted the polls.
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