Suu Kyi makes parliamentary debut

Monday, July 9, marks a historic day for Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she takes her seat as an elected official in parliament. She will join other members of her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), who transform from dissidents to mainstream political players. She was unable to make her parliamentary debut last week to recover from a gruelling European tour and to visit her constituents. The 67-year-old activist, one of NLD’s lower house members of parliament, assumes office amid what has been described as “confidence building with military representatives.” The shift from protest to mainstream politics also comes as a result of sweeping changes by a new regime that has released political prisoners and called for ceasefires with ethnic rebel groups.

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