Burma Pro-Democracy Icon Suu Kyi Casts Her 1st-Ever Ballot

Though championed worldwide as a pro-democracy icon, there is something Aung San Suu Kyi was unable to do until Sunday: vote.

Burma opposition leader and head of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi leaves her house to cast her vote at a polling station in Yangon on Nov. 8, 2015. The historic poll could see Suu Kyi's opposition launched to power after decades of army rule. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

YANGON, Burma/Myanmar—Though championed worldwide as a pro-democracy icon, there is something Aung San Suu Kyi was unable to do until Sunday: vote.

The 70-year-old smiled but said nothing to waiting reporters as she cast her ballot at a polling station near the lakeside villa that served as her prison when the country was under dictatorship.

Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy party, confirmed it was a first for “The Lady.”

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