NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: With no little swagger, Myanmar’s army-backed ruling party has hit the campaign trail predicting it will win 75 percent of votes in next month’s election despite a formidable opponent in Aung San Suu Kyi and her wildly popular opposition party.

The November 8 elections will be the first nationwide polls in a quarter of a century to be contested by Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party.

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