With Suu Kyi banned, Myanmar voters ponder 'proxy presidents'


  • World
  • Saturday, 07 Nov 2015

Aung San Suu Kyi stickers for sale are seen at the National League for Democracy headquarters ahead of Sunday's general election in Yangon, Myanmar, November 5, 2015. REUTERS/Olivia Harris

YANGON (Reuters) - In a ramshackle hospital in Myanmar's largest city, at the end of a corridor milling with patients, sits the man some people believe will be the country's next president.

Tin Myo Win is the long-time personal physician of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party is expected to win Sunday's landmark general election. That position has earned him a place on a list of presidential candidates, some of them improbable.

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