Burma's military leaders refused to recognise Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party's election victory in 1990.With NLD win a landslide victory, she spent much of the next two decades in detention.
NLD contesting 45 seats cannot threaten the ruling party's majority even with a strong result in the April vote.Political experts opinion is regime wants Suu Kyi to win a place in parliament to give its reform drive legitimacy and encourage the West to ease sanctions.Myanmar government said they have invited US, European,Asian observers for the vote.
This year election were initially due to take place in 48 constituencies, but the election commission cancelled ballots in three of them on Friday due to security reasons. Nobel laureate, who is running for a seat in parliament in the April 1 polls, was put on a drip and ordered to rest by her personal doctor after falling ill in the town of Myeik in the far south of Myanmar.NLD confirmed the decision to cancel a final campaign trip on Tuesday and Wednesday to Magway, the central Myanmar region where her independence hero father was born.NLD deputy information officer Kyi Toe said Suu Kyi's health had "deteriorated" during the trip.
National League for Democracy said Ms. Suu Kyi's advised rest by her personal physician.
Suu Kyi is sick after vomiting while campaigning in the Mergui archipelago in southernmost Myanmar.
Doctor said her ill health was due to exhaustion and the hot weather. Suu Kyi after her release from house arrest in 2010, has traveled thousands of kilometers by car, plane and boat to campaign around the country for campaign for her party. NLD spokesman said she was suffering from low blood pressure and had been vomiting, due to exhaustion, as per the reports of the doctors.Suu Kyi addressed a crowd of tens of thousands in the port city of Myeik, asked by her doctors to now return home to Rangoon.
NLD her party is contesting 45 seats in by-elections next week.
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