Aung San Suu Kyi will not become Myanmar’s next president

Unofficially, she has vowed to be the de facto leader by calling the shots from behind the scenes, and party members of the National League for Democracy said Thursday that’s how things will work in Myanmar’s first democratically elected government in more than a half century.

For the past several weeks, Suu Kyi is believed to have held closed-door talks with the powerful military generals to suspend a constitutional clause that bars her from presidency.

The longtime former political prisoner led her party to a landslide victory in Nov. 8 general elections, paving the way for the country’s first democratically elected government since the military took power in 1962.