Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party won a majority in parliament in the Southeast Asian nation’s historic election. With votes still being counted, the Union Election Commission said the National League for Democracy (NLD) party had crossed the 329 threshold of seats needed for an outright majority in both houses of the 664-member parliament. The country’s first free election in 25 years took place on November 8′ 2015.

NLD captured 21 lower house seats, the election commission said, taking its total to 348 seats with 82.9 percent of the vote now confirmed. The ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party has won 140 seats so far.

The party holding a majority is able to select the next president, who can then name a cabinet and form a new government. Suu Kyi won the last free vote in 1990, but the military ignored the result. She spent most of the next 20 years under house arrest before her release in 2010.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate is barred from taking the presidency because she’s married to a foreigner under a constitution written by the then-ruling generals to preserve their power. But Suu Kyi has said that may change once her party is in power.

Did You Know?

• The Muslim Rohingya  were denied the right to vote and others were disqualified as candidates.
• Myanmar’s government has denied the Rohingya citizenship.
• Hundreds died in clashes between Rohingya and Buddhists, the religious majority in the country, in 2012.
• About 140,000 Rohingya live in squalid camps while thousands more have fled by boat, leading to a regional migration crisis.