Aung San Suu Kyi AC is a Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest prior to the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for nearly 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010, becoming one of the world’s most prominent political prisoners.
Suu Kyi received the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and Thought in 1990. In 1992 the government of the International Simon Bolivar Prize and India awarded her the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in the government of Venezuela. The Government of Canada made her an honorary citizen of that nation, the fourth person ever to get the honour. In 2011, she was awarded the Wallenberg Medal. On 19 September 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi was likewise presented together with the Congressional Gold Medal, which is, along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the USA.
The election results were confirmed by the official electoral commission the next day.
On 6 June 2013, Suu Kyi announced on the World Economic Forum’s website that she really wants to run for the presidency in the 2015 elections in Myanmar. Suu Kyi is prohibited from becoming president inside the present constitution; this cannot be amended without the approval of at least one military legislator.
As of 2014, she’s recorded as the 61st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.