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This R&D provides resources on Myanmar’s national elections, which will be held on Sunday.  The international community expects the nation to run its fairest elections since the 1980s, but there are concerns that the nation’s military interests are trying to hurt the National League for Democracy (NLD) and that the elections will not empower the nation’s various minority communities.  In all, ninety-two political parties will contest the elections for the national parliament, also known as the Hluttaw.  NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi is barred from being named the nation’s president by the legislature due to being married to a foreign national.