Wednesday, July 25, 2012

San Suu Kyi takes her seat in Myanmar Parliament



The historic opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi, has finally taken her seat in Myanmar Parliament. In an instant as brief as history, the Nobel Peace Prize has become, finally, for the first time in his long political struggle, MP. In a brief ceremony has promised to safeguard the Constitution of Myanmar, which gives sweeping powers to a military as this Southeast Asian country.

"I will be loyal to the Republic of the Union of Burma and its citizens and I have always considered non-disintegration of the Union, non-disintegration of national solidarity and perpetuation of sovereignty," said Aung San Suu Kyi before President of the Chamber of Deputies, the former General Shwe Mann.

The incorporation of the historic opposition leader 66-year-old brand, definitely a before and after in the political development of this country in Southeast Asia and certifies that the democratic transition process led by President Thein Sein is irreversible.

Acceptance, and that of 42 other parliamentarians in the National League for Democracy (NLD), to participate in the work of the House of Representatives has taken place after the discrepancy was resolved that held on the formula to comply with the Constitution. A gesture that was interpreted as the first serious discrepancy between the government and opposition Thein Sein.

San Suu Kyi and other MPs elected in the partial elections of April 1, decided to go Wednesday that celebrates the full Legislature in Naypyidaw after last week the leaders of parties represented in Parliament to support a letter to the chairman of the House, Shwe Man, amending the oath formula proposed by the opposition.

Last week, opposition leader and the rest of the NLD MPs-elect had refused to take up their seats because they refused to swear the existing formula Burmese Constitution. They demanded to replace the phrase "protect the Constitution" by "respect the Constitution."

Claim responded to the fulfillment of one of its main political commitments, which is to amend the Constitution. San Suu Kyi said during the election campaign that if elected out fight to reform the constitution of his country, he considers undemocratic. And is that the current Constitution, adopted in 2008 through a referendum, was drafted by a commission elected leaders handpicked by the military regime that ruled the country for nearly half a century and the military reserve 25 percent of the seats in Parliament and Senate.

But San Suu Kyi decided to step back and abide by the Constitution for not putting their backs to the wall Thein Sein and his reform project. "We have always believed in flexibility in the political process," said Tuesday by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, whom he had met previously.

"It is our only means to achieve our goals without violence," said the Nobel Peace Prize awarded.

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