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I want to be the President: Aung San Suu kyi

Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar): Mynamar’s opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday declared her intention to run for President in 2015 and sought amendment to the country’s Constitution under which she is not eligible to contest.
Asked if she is confident that constitution will be amended in the country, Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Suu Kyi said, “I don’t believe in indulging in optimism. Let me put it in this way, hope has to be backed by endeavour. So rather than be optimistic or hoping that the constitution will be amended, we are going to work for the constitution to be amended”.

The current constitution blocks anyone whose spouses or children are overseas citizens from being appointed by parliament for the top job. Suu Kyi’s two sons with her late husband Michael Aris are British and the clause is widely believed to be targeted at the Nobel laureate, who was educated in India.

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