First
off, I find it strange that Suu Kyi suddenly decided to be honest about her
wanting to run for president. I would like to know what caused her to finally
admit it when she usually kept quiet about this subject. Though I do not have
much knowledge about her character, I find that she is a slightly unpredictable
and eccentric woman. I am curious as to how things will play out and how she
will act if elected into office. For example, I wonder what she will do about
the constitution that was written in part actually to try and prevent her from
being voted into office. Will she tear it up and draft a new constitution, or
leave it as a reminder to show the people that however big the obstacle, she
will overcome it?
It
then leads me to think why was the constitution written in part to prevent her
presdidency? Is she a bad, corrupt leader, or was it the previous government
that was bad and corrupt, and wrote the constitution in order to keep Suu Kyi
from obtaining power? My suspicion is that the current constitution was written
by the army, for it is the army, that holds 25% of the seats in parliament,
just enough to block any constitutional changes.
So, in
order to win over the army, she must stroke and placate the generals.
Admittedly, this disturbs some of the citizens, but they accept that in order
for Myanmar to maybe become a true democracy, the generals must be won over.
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