YANGON – Myanmar holds national and state elections Sunday in which Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party will be looking to hold on to power.Here's a closer look at the vote:THE BASICSMore than 37 million of Myanmar's 56 million people are eligible to vote.
More than 90 parties are fielding candidates for seats in the upper and lower houses of Parliament. The NLD's landslide victory in the last election in 2015 came after more than five decades of military or military-directed rule.
Those polls were seen as largely free and fair with one big exception — the army-drafted constitution of 2008 automatically grants the military 25% of the seats in Parliament, enough to block constitutional changes.