Myanmar president not ruling out second term

Myanmar's President Thein Sein speaks at the Mekong-Five Economic Forum hosted by Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in Tokyo, July 3, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar President Thein Sein has indicated willingness to have a second five-year term in office after a parliamentary election in November, citing few younger people capable of continuing his government's reform agenda.

Thein Sein, 70, will not run in the ballot due to health concerns. But that does not rule him out of the presidency under Myanmar's hybrid military-civilian system, where there is no law stopping the new legislature from nominating him as one of its three presidential candidates.