The National League for Democracy will soon unveil its proposals to revise the country’s constitution, central executive committee members said on May 27.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at a press conference in Yangon on May 29. (Aung Htay Hlaing/The Myanmar Times)
Party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi told journalists at the meeting at Yangon’s Royal Rose Restaurant that the government had not done enough to improve people’s lives since coming to power in March 2011.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is also chair of Pyithu Hluttaw’s Rule of Law, Stability and Peace Committee, said the constitution needed to be amended.
She also said domestic peace and respect for the rule of law had not improved as much as they should have.
Speaking of drug abuse, she said: “This very much relates to the rule of law. What we should ask is why the problem of narcotic drugs has deteriorated during these three years. Is it because of the authorities’ inefficiency and weakness?”
Asked about internal conflicts, she said representatives of ethnic minorities agreed that there was no equality, adding: “In the end, what’s of prime importance in reversing [the lack of equality] is that our constitution should embrace equality”.
NLD spokesperson U Nyan Win said the party was preparing to release its proposals on amending the constitution and would make a statement soon.
The central executive committee meeting was the party’s first since its national assembly in March, and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
noted it was being held on the anniversary of the 1990 election, which NLD won by a landslide, triggering a military clampdown.
She recalled that the party has had the right to campaign legally for only one year.
“Today we have to work out how to build the party into one that benefits the country,” she said.
Translated by Thit Lwin
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