CHALLENGES: Her role in a reforming Myanmar will be no less essential after winning Sunday's by-elections, writes Andrew R.C. Marshall.
SOE Thein is a pious man. Every evening, he kneels before a Buddhist shrine in his Yangon home to pray for the only woman he believes can lead Myanmar to a brighter future.
"I pray for Aung San Suu Kyi's health and long life," says Soe Thein, formerly a political prisoner and senior member of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD).
"Who could replace her?"
Suu Kyi's role in a reforming Myanmar will be no less essential after sweeping the board in Sunday's historic by-elections. The NLD won 43 of the 44 seats it contested, in a Parliament still dominated by the military and the rival party it created.
But after two decades in opposition, much of it spent as a prisoner of the former junta, Suu Kyi now faces a slew of unfamiliar challenges. She must find her place in a perhaps hostile lower house while nurturing her crucial relationship with reformist President Thein Sein and managing the expectations of a nation impatient for change after decades of isolation, poverty and military misrule.
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