YANGON: Myanmar’s influential parliamentary speaker Shwe Mann has announced he will run for president in the fast reforming nation in 2015 polls, according to a report, joining opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the only declared candidates so far.

Former Gen. Shwe Mann, a key architect of reforms since the end of the junta in 2011, has long been tipped for a tilt at the nation’s top office—currently held by Thein Sein.

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