Reuters, 13/01 16:56 CET
By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – Myanmar
election winner Aung San Suu Kyi will not press for an immediate change
to the constitution that bars her from becoming president, and will
instead appoint a ceremonial head of state, a senior official in her
party said on Wednesday.
She will also include in the new cabinet at least one member of the military-linked Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP),
which was trounced in the November vote, as well as technocrats from
ethnic minorities who have long complained of being sidelined from
power.
The democracy champion is keen to avoid open
confrontation with the powerful military, perhaps wary that the last
time she triumphed at the ballot box in 1990, the army kept her under
house arrest for years and refused to surrender power.
That does not mean Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD)
party has given up on its overarching goal of amending the
constitution, the party official told Reuters, but the issue has not
been discussed yet between the sides in recent weeks.
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Source: Euronews
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