Suu Kyi lays down law on party discipline

YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi has warned newly minted MPs she will not tolerate poor discipline or wrongdoing, party members said Saturday, as Myanmar’s democracy champion began marshalling her opposition for government amid sky-high expectations.

Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party took nearly 80 percent of contested seats in the November 8 election, promising change after decades of corrosive and corrupt army control of the country. But she cannot be president under the junta-scripted constitution. Instead the party leader has vowed to rule from “above the president” -- via a proxy who will be selected by the NLD-dominated legislature in the new year.