NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) proposed Htin Kyaw, a close friend of party leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, as its presidential candidate for the lower house of parliament on Thursday.
Suu Kyi is barred from holding the presidency under a junta-drafted 2008 constitution because her children are not Myanmar citizens. She has said she would run the country anyway through a proxy.
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