All this is to say nothing of the constitutional provisions designed specifically to keep Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi out of the office of president: the clauses preventing anyone with a foreign spouse or children from holding the top job. This, of course, has not stopped Mrs Suu Kyi’s ambitions, and nor should they since she was denied power 25 years ago. She has long said she would rule from the parliamentary floor if her party, the National League for Democracy, won a majority. On Thursday she made her boldest pronouncement yet on that score: “I will run the government,” she told the world, saying she had made plans. When asked directly what her position would be, she said “above the president”.