Yangon: Myanmar’s election commission has rejected a challenge to the parliamentary candidacy of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and confirmed her place on the ballot.
Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, said today that the commission’s division-level office rejected the complaint of a rival candidate from the small Party for Unity and Peace.
The challenger alleged that Suu Kyi enjoys benefits of a foreign citizen stemming from her marriage to her late British husband. That would make her ineligible to run in the April 1 by-election under Myanmar’s constitution, but her party says she enjoys no such benefits. (AP)
In 1990, Suu Kyi filed to run in the general election, but was disqualified after a similar objection.
