"...Although the party of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy (N.L.D.), won a commanding victory in the last general election in 2015, the military still reaches far into Myanmar politics. And longtime Myanmar watchers, independent policy groups, various academics, mainstream media, the American ambassador to Myanmar and the United States Senate majority leader all agree that the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar can be amended with no less than a 75 percent majority in Parliament — and that 25 percent of Parliament is reserved for the military. They are wrong. The military, or Tatmadaw, does have the numbers to block reform at the moment, but that state of affairs isn’t guaranteed by the Constitution. The elected members of Parliament have the authority they need even under this very undemocratic Constitution to change the text itself — and to start changing the country — right now..."