The polls are just about to close in Myanmar， which is holding its first free election in 25 years.
According to our Lee Ji－won， the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi is widely expected to win a majority of seats up for grabs， though the count won′t be official until sometime tomorrow.
The lines were long，... as people were excited to cast their ballots in Myanmar′s first free election in 25 years.
More than 6，000 candidates from 91 political parties are running for five－year terms in the country′s 664－seat parliament.
But 25－percent of the seats have already been reserved for unelected military representatives，... so only 4－hundred－98 seats are up for grabs here.
The main rivals are the National League for Democracy party， the party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi，... and the ruling Union Solidarity Development Party， the majority of whom are former members of the military junta.
The election is significant for the Southeast Asian nation， as it takes a big step closer to democracy.
Myanmar， also known as Burma， has been under the grip of the military junta for five decades， though it handpicked a nominally civilian government in 2010.
The party of the former Nobel Peace Prize laureate is largely expected to win the majority of the seats in this election， but she cannot be elected president because of a constitutional amendment that bars anyone who is married to a foreign national or has children who are foreign nationals... from becoming president.
Both her sons and late husband are British.
Suu Kyi has said she would be ″above the president″ if her NLD party prevails in this election.
The preliminary results will be announced early this week but the official count will happen sometime in the middle of this month.
Lee Ji－won Arirang News.
