MYANMAR: SUU KYI REAPPOINTED AS OPPOSITION LEADER
Myanmar's long silenced opposition on March 10, 2013 reappointed Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as party leader at the landmark maiden Congress as it eyes victory in elections due in 2015. The former political prisoner, who entered Parliament last year, was unanimously elected as chair-woman by her National League for Democracy's 120-member Central Committee, a party source told AFP.
Suu Kyi urged her opposition party to 'seize the opportunity' as it gears up for what is expected to be a major victory for the NLD in the 2015 polls, if the vote is free and fair.
'For the benefit of the country we should be united. After being sidelined by Myanmar's military rulers for two decades, the party entered the political main-stream last year as a result of sweeping reforms initiated by a new reformist government.
Suu Kyi urged her opposition party to 'seize the opportunity' as it gears up for what is expected to be a major victory for the NLD in the 2015 polls, if the vote is free and fair.
'For the benefit of the country we should be united. After being sidelined by Myanmar's military rulers for two decades, the party entered the political main-stream last year as a result of sweeping reforms initiated by a new reformist government.
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