8 February 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi: Leader of the NLD (photo credit: AP)
<p>TWO pro-government television channels in Burma (Myanmar) have said that “positive results” could come out of negotiations between Burma’s military chief and Aung San Suu Kyi on a constitutional clause preventing her from becoming the president. <span style="line-height: 20.4px;">Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party won a landslide victory in the Nov. 8 general elections. But she is barred from becoming president because of the Constitution’s Article 59 (f), which says anyone with foreign spouses and children cannot hold the executive office. Suu Kyi’s late husband was British.</span></p>
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Asian Correspondent
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