News and Politics | January 10, 2012 | 1 comment

Suu Kyi confirms she will run for parliament

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-will-run-for-myanmar-parliamen...

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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has confirmed that she will run for a seat in her country’s new parliament.

Her entry into a by-election scheduled for April will be the first time the National League for Democracy has participated in Burma’s new political structure after it was formally registered as a party in December 2011.

An NLD party spokesman told the New York Times that Suu Kyi would stand for one of 48 seats that have become vacant since November 2010 after the appointment of members to cabinet roles.

Suu Kyi's announcement to run for parliament comes just a week after the Burmese government approved the NLD’s participation in elections following its removal from the list due to the party’s boycott of the general election.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-will-run-for-myanm...
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1 comment // Suu Kyi confirms she will run for parliament

  • theknopfknows
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    • PLEASE this milk and cookies or Kool-aid with USA Indefinite detention and arms sale Burma, QueeN MYANMAR has not a chance Still on Probation.
      Invite Her to USA;see if They let Her out of the country?? WAKE UP AMERICA INDIGENOUS INDIAN ABUSE IS STILL ON 400 years of Indian Indefinite Detention First Concentration camps were reserves for animals Human INDIANS! SHAME FOR WISHFUL THINKING True BLUE SUU!

    • 5 months ago
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