YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party on Wednesday admitted it "cannot win" its battle to scrap parts of a junta-era constitution that bars her from Myanmar's presidency, decrying a parliamentary decision to postpone amendments until after 2015 elections.
Party spokesman Nyan Win said an effective army veto in parliament meant it would not prevail in its efforts to overhaul the charter in an ongoing crunch debate in the legislature, in which representatives of the powerful military have lined up to voice opposition to large-scale change.
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