Myanmar's parliament has moved up by a week the deadline for nominating the country's next president, bringing the nation a step closer to a historic transition of power

Myanmar's parliament has moved up by a week the deadline for nominating the country's next president, bringing the nation a step closer to a historic transition of power.

The new deadline, set Tuesday, means the upper and lower houses of parliament and the military bloc that holds a constitutionally mandated 25 percent of seats will now nominate their presidential candidates by March 10. The original deadline was March 17.

The new president is virtually certain to be from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party. After its landslide election victory in November, the NLD commands majorities in both chambers of parliament, so it will get to nominate two candidates. (Courtesy of greenfieldreporter.com)