Aung San Suu Kyi runs for Burmese presidency in all but name

The party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi officially confirmed yesterday that she will not become Burma’s next president.

Unofficially, she has vowed to be the de-facto leader by calling the shots from behind the scenes, and party members said that’s how things will work in Burma’s first democratically-elected government in more than half a century.

The party nominated two Suu Kyi loyalists for the post including the front runner Htin Kyaw a 70-year-old Oxford graduate. The nomination will be followed by a vote among legislators later this month before the new president is installed April 1.