Aung San Suu Kyi’s party has nominated her former driver and close aide to be Myanmar’s next president. <br /><br /> The National League for Democracy (NLD) is putting forward 70-year-old Htin Kyaw, an Oxford graduate, as its lower house candidate. He is seen as the front-runner.<br /><br /> Suu Kyi is barred from holding the presidency because her children are not Myanmar citizens, the legacy of a junta-drafted constitution. <br /><br /> But she has said that she will run the country through a proxy anyway. <br /><br /> The NLD’s huge parliamentary majority means the candidate it backs for the presidency is almost certain to take the top job. <br /><br /> The party’s also nominated Henry Vantriu, from the Chin ethnic community, as its upper house nominee.<br /><br /> The joint chamber is due to vote on who becomes president this month. Myanmar’s new government takes over on the 1st of April.
