Suu Kyi expected to run for office

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi intends to run for parliament in upcoming by-elections in Burma.

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi intends to run for parliament in upcoming by-elections in Burma.

The decision announced today was expected after her party decided last week to rejoin mainstream politics in the long-isolated nation.

Nyan Win, the spokesman of Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, said she has not yet decided which district she will seek to represent.

But he said she “has the intention to stand for the elections”.

The NLD decided on Friday to rejoin politics and register for future elections, signalling its confidence in recent reforms by the nominally civilian government that took power earlier this year.

The NLD boycotted the last elections because of a law that had prevented Ms Suu Kyi from running. The government scrapped that law recently.

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