General elections were held in Myanmar on 7 November 2010, in accordance with the new constitution, which was approved in a referendum held in May 2008. The election date was announced by the State Pe
President of Burma
Dr. Aye Maung
Aung San Suu Kyi
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Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Union Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the general secretar
2010 Myanmar general election
…left by such appointments as well as by resignations and deaths were held in April 2012. Going into the elections, a debate emerged around whether Aung San Suu Kyi would be disqualified from contesting the elections under Article 59F of the new constitution, which banned from the Presidency any person whose spouse…
Aung San Suu Kyi in 2019
Aung San Suu Kyi at her constituency in Kawhmu township during the 2012 by-election campaign
Aung San Suu Kyi meeting with Edgardo Boeninger of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1995
US Senator Jim Webb visiting Aung San Suu Kyi in 2009. Webb negotiated the release of John Yettaw, the man who trespassed in Aung San Suu Kyi's home.