Aung San Suu Kyi no longer allowed to stand for election

Netherlands News.Net
Wednesday 10th March, 2010

In Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of her party.

The Mynamar government has decreed that anyone serving a prison term cannot be a party member, with parties failing to obey the law to be abolished.

The detained leader was sentenced to three years in jail in August over an incident in which a US man swam to her lakeside home and stayed overnight.

He had apparently tried to warn her about incidents he had imagined in a dream.

While her sentence was commuted by Myanmar leader, Than Shwe, the new law now only gives the NLD sixty days to register as a party if it wants to take part in this year's elections.

The party won Myanmar's last elections in 1990 under Ms Suu Kyi, but the military regime annulled the result.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been in detention for 14 of the subsequent 20 years.

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