Thein Sein backs charter change

Myanmar President Thein Sein supported moves to change the country’s constitution to allow opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to run for president. On Thursday, he said debates about revising the charter shows increasing “political maturity.” Thein Sein added he supports amending provisions which exclude anyone whose spouse or children are overseas citizens from becoming president, a clause widely believed to be targeted at Suu Kyi whose two sons are British. Myanmar is preparing for the 2015 parliamentary elections, when the country’s president will be selected by the legislature. Suu Kyi spent 15 years in house arrest under military rule, before she was freed after elections in 2010. A parliamentary panel is reviewing the constitution.

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