FILE IMAGES: Suu Kyi vows to rule 'above the president' Aung San Suu Kyi was Thursday finally ruled out of the running to become Myanmar's next president, as her party nominated one of her most loyal aides to rule the formerly junta-run nation as her proxy. Back in November, just before her party's landslide election victory, Suu Kyi vowed that she would rule "above" the president, despite being barred from top office by the constitution. FILE IMAGES AND SOUNDBITE.