Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi says that if her opposition party wins historic polls this weekend she will take a post “above the president” to circumvent a constitutional ban on her holding the presidency.
In a wide-ranging news conference on Thursday, she said- “I will be above the president. It’s a very simple message,” but did not elaborate.
Sunday’s election has been touted as possibly the freest and fairest poll in over two decades in Myanmar, which was ruled by a military junta for half a century until 2011.
Ms. Suu Kyi’s opposition party is expected to do well in the polls, although she herself is constitutionally barred from the presidency.
