Kyi in parliament, to which she was elected in 2012 after the army freed her from house arrest. Aye Maung, leader of the largest ethnic party in the western state of Rakhine, said he asked Suu Kyi in vain not to campaign in his state, fearing that NLD and ethnic Rakhine candidates would split votes.
We are also on the front lines of fighting to get the army out of politics, Aye Maung said. We can be partners in parliament. But when I asked her to leave Rakhine state to us, she was silent. She wants to form a one-party government.