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Friday, June 26, 2015
Burma’s parliament blocks changes to constitution
Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Pic: AP.
YANGON, Burma (AP) — Burma’s parliament has voted against proposed
constitutional amendments, ensuring that the military’s veto power
remains intact and that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi cannot become
president in an election this year.
The legislature ended a 3-day debate Thursday on proposed changes to the 2008 constitution.
The constitution bars Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, from
seeking the presidency in Burma (Myanmar) and gives the military an
effective veto over constitutional amendments. Changes to both those
clauses were rejected Thursday.
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy is expected to see heavy gains
against the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party in the polls.
The NLD swept the last free general election in 1990 but the then-ruling
military junta ignored the results and kept Suu Kyi under house arrest
for years.
