Myanmar's presidential nominees to be announced March 10



YANGON: -- Myanmar's Union Parliament announced on Tuesday that presidential nominees will be declared on March 10 — a week earlier than the date originally set for the occasion, The Irrawaddy reported.

According to the announcement was made by Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than, after nominees are announced, an electoral college will select Myanmar’s next President from among them; the deadline for the transition of power to the new government is the end of March.

“The date to hold meetings for the three presidential nominees has been put forward to March 10, a week earlier than the previously decided date,” the Speaker told the MPs.

The revised date was announced following a meeting between National League for Democracy (NLD) chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi and military commander-in-chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing on February 17. The talks were reportedly held to discuss matters related to the rule of law and sustainable peace.

Both the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament will nominate candidates for vice president, while military representatives, who were appointed by the commander-in-chief to fill 25 percent of the legislative seats, will nominate another candidate.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/153149


-- Thai PBS 2016-03-02

Quote Aung San Suu Kyi and military commander-in-chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing on February 17. The talks were reportedly held to discuss matters related to the rule of law and sustainable peace. unquote. Now the official version. The military will let her become president if she allows the military to continue with all their business sidelines legal or otherwise in the status quo and promises to not prosecute them for any human rights violations. Quoted from one of the newspapers here.

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