Myanmar’s Leader May Step Aside After 2015 Elections, Aide Says

Myanmar President Thein Sein will probably step aside when his term ends following elections in 2015, an aide said, adding uncertainty to the political outlook after he oversaw the nation’s most inclusive vote in more than two decades.

“The president has laid the foundation for the political reform and he is the founder of this transition,” Ko Ko Hlaing, his top political adviser, said in a May 2 interview in Yangon. “So after this tenure, if it is quite successful, he may be content with his works. The next steps toward democracy will be in the hands of other leaders.”