YANGON, Myanmar: Myanmar’s parliament meets Thursday to put forward presidential candidates, some four months after Aung San Suu Kui’s National League for Democracy (NLD) swept landmark elections.

Under the country’s complex junta-drafted constitution, three names will be put forward but the NLD’s candidate will almost certainly be the winner.

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