NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s parliament voted Tuesday to create a committee to propose amendments to the country’s military-enacted constitution, which grants the armed forces the power to block any change. The committee proposal required a simple majority to pass. Gen. Maung Maung, one of the military representatives in parliament, said the objection was not against proposing changes, but rather against setting up a committee to do so. Once in power, the National League for Democracy made an end run around one of the constitutional clauses it sought most to change. Once in power, her party created the office of state counsellor especially for Suu Kyi, granting it executive powers and making her effectively the head of government.

Source: National Post January 29, 2019 13:05 UTC