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Myanmar constitution likely to dash Suu Kyi's presidential hopes
(Reuters) - Her adoring compatriots believe democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is destined to become Myanmar's next president. But don't bet on it.
A year ago, the Nobel Peace Prize winner was feted at home and abroad and flush from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party's landslide wins in April 2012 by-elections, which swept her into parliament.
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Suu Kyi's most immediate problem is the constitution.
It bars anyone married to a foreigner or who has children who are foreign citizens. Suu Kyi and her husband, the late British academic Michael Aris, had two children who are British.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/19/us-myanmar-suukyi-idUSBRE95I1P920130619
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