A Legco election was held in 1962, and was won with a landslide by the Parti Rakyat Brunei (PRB, Brunei People's Party). When the PRB was prevented from forming a government, it staged an armed rebellion, which was suppressed by Gurkha units of the British army. A state of emergency was subsequently declared. Following the annulment of the results of Brunei's first election in 1962, no legislature has since been elected. (A handful of members of the largely appointed Legco are elected indirectly through the village councils.) No meaningful elections are expected in the forecast period, and the Economist Intelligence Unit expects the sultan to continue to monopolise political power.