<span style="color: #222222;">A spokesman of the Myanmar's ruling party, National League for Democracy (NLD) has expressed confidence that the party can retain its majority in Parliament after Sunday's election.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The election commission has not released preliminary results, saying that vote counting will require time. The NLD led by Aung San Suu Kyi came to power after a 2015 landslide in which it won a total of 390 seats in the Parliament.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Myanmar went into this election under a cloud of a surging COVID-19 outbreak, economic hardship and escalating ethnic conflicts.</span><br />