Myanmar Suu Kyi's party set to challenge army-drafted charter - sources


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  • Tuesday, 29 Jan 2019

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi is seen while she waits for a meeting with Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang (not pictured) at the Presidential Palace during the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Hanoi, Vietnam September 13, 2018. REUTERS/Kham/Pool

NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling party was set on Tuesday to propose changes to the constitution, a lawmaker and a party source said, its biggest challenge in nearly three years to the military power enshrined in the charter.

The move could boost tension between the military, which retains a strong political role, and Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), which have been at loggerheads over the charter since the party's historic landslide win in 2015.

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