Myanmar military should accept Aung San Suu Kyi has mandate for reform, says her legal adviser

The party led by Aung San Suu Kyi is determined to make amendments to Myanmar's constitution, including the "unacceptable" and "unfair" provision that bars her from becoming the president, her senior adviser on legal affairs has said.

Robert Pé, who has been advising the Nobel Peace Prize recipient for more than three years, said the military needed to understand that Suu Kyi's landslide election victory meant she had the mandate from the people to carry out constitutional reform.

"It is absolutely clear the National League for Democracy wants that provision, among a few others, to be significantly revised," Pé, who is based in Hong Kong, told the .

"If and when the time comes to embrace constitutional reform, when the military is willing to embrace it as well, then [that provision] will be one of the provisions that I would expect to be looked at very closely and I would expect to be greatly revised."

Suu Kyi lived under house arrest for 15 years until 2010.

In the country's parliamentary election earlier this month, her party secured a landslide victory, giving it a majority in the parliament and the right to choose a new president early next year.