Suu Kyi Says She Wants Myanmar Presidency If Charter Changed

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said she wants to run for president in elections two years from now and rebuffed criticism that she has been silent over the repression of a Muslim minority in the country.

“I do aspire to the presidency as I should as the leader of a political party that is going to take part in the electoral process,” Suu Kyi told reporters today at the World Economic Forum in Naypyidaw. At an earlier panel, she said: “There are those who say I shouldn’t say I would like to be president, but if I pretended that I didn’t want to be president I wouldn’t be honest, and I would rather be honest with my people.”