昂山素季提名密友爲緬甸總統候選人

Aung San Suu Kyi has picked a long-time confidant to become Myanmar’s history-making new president, after failing to overturn a controversial constitutional clause that blocks her from the top job.

昂山素季(Aung San Suu Kyi)已選擇一位長期以來的密友擔任具有開創歷史意義的緬甸新總統。此前，她未能廢除憲法中一項妨礙她擔任總統職位的爭議性條款。

Htin Kyaw, a friend of 20 years who runs a charity for the veteran pro-democracy leader, was chosen for what she has said will be a proxy job to carry out her decisions.

昂山素季選擇吳廷覺(Htin Kyaw)擔任總統候選人，她說，這將是一個執行她本人決定的代理性工作。吳廷覺與昂山素季的友誼長達20年，如今替這位民主領袖運營一家慈善機構。

Thursday’s nomination by the lower house of parliament dominated by Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy will need to be approved by a vote of the full legislature, notching another landmark in the country’s long transition from military rule. The NLD has comfortable majorities in both houses of parliament, so it would be a big surprise were her choice to be rejected.

週四由昂山素季領導的全國民主聯盟(NLD)占主導地位的議會下院做出的提名，將需要議會全體成員投票通過，成爲緬甸歷時已久的從軍事統治向民主政體過渡的又一里程碑。全國民主聯盟在議會上下兩院都擁有絕對多數席位，所以，若沒有重大意外，她的選擇將不會被拒絕。

Mr Htin Kyaw, a 70-year-old author and Oxford university graduate, has been an adviser to Ms Aung San Suu Kyi since the 1990s and the start of her 15 years of house arrest. The new president will from April 1 lead a government to replace the military-backed administration, which has held power since the ruling junta of almost 50 years stepped down in 2011.

今年70歲的吳廷覺是一名作家，畢業於牛津大學。自1990年代昂山素季開始15年的幽禁生活以來，吳廷覺一直在擔任她的顧問。新總統將於4月1日組閣，取代目前得到軍方支持的政府。自2011年掌權近50年的軍政府下臺以來，緬甸一直由現政府執掌。

Mr Htin Kyaw’s nomination is final confirmation that Ms Aung San Suu Kyi will be denied the honour of leading the first administration since the 1960s to be chosen after a full, free and fair election. The NLD made a late effort to use its sweeping mandate from November’s poll to bargain with the still-powerful military for a change in the constitution, but talks broke down.

吳廷覺獲提名最終確認了一個事實，即昂山素季無法享有領導自1960年代以來的第一個通過全面、自由和公平的選舉而產生的政府的榮譽。全國民主聯盟進行了一次姍姍來遲的努力，利用去年11月議會選舉獲得的大多數席位，與實力仍然雄厚的軍方進行談判、要求修改憲法，但談判最終破裂了。