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Ahead of Sunday's election, Jonah Fisher analyses the electoral tactics of Myanmar's power elite - and its opposition. All parties are now appealing to the public's thirst for change; even the ruling, military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is running with a slogan proclaiming that the country needs to "Move Forward". But how can it do so if the same figures who've presided over 25 years of repression have a chance of staying in charge? And what chance does Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD movement of gaining real power?

Photo: USDP party supporters participate in an election campaign rally in Pyu township of Bago region, Myanmar on November 5, 2015. (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images)