Thein Sein, 70, will not stand in the election because of health concerns. His nomination as the presidential candidate from one of the new legislature, there is no law to stop there, but Myanmar, a hybrid of the military to civilian rule did not keep him out of the presidency.
"My age and health concerns, and I want to retire ... but frankly, in our country, who can govern the country in the right direction very few young or even middle-aged people," he said Friday in Asia, Nikkei review.
The second term, he said, depends on "the situation in the country, and the prevailing conditions and the wishes of the people."
Liberal reform stream of Myanmar Thein Sein has won plaudits from the elimination of the military dictatorship and human rights to be trampled in the West as well as the command of the fourth helped transform the image tainted by his previous role.
A senior official from the Union Solidarity and Development Party, the president's reformist coalition, told Reuters on Friday cycles, and elected to apply those Aung Min Thein.
Despite the fact that the National League for Democracy party is expected to do well at the Nobel Peace Prize Aung San Suu Kyi won the ballot, and the complex make-up of Myanmar's system in a home for the executive branch does not have a guarantee that means.
Standard constitution drafted by a controversial British military qualifications to become president of the Oxford-educated Suu Kyi and her two sons to the resistance.
Despite the fact that it's leading to a lot of players have hinted to them, until after the elections is unlikely that there will be clarity about the presidential candidates.
Presidential ambitions of a parliament speaker and his popularity grew in stature as the military regime who are ranked at the top of Thein Sein Shwe Mann, is widely seen.
He will discuss the recent presidential nomination. Armed forces chief General Min Aung Hlaing "People ask me this responsibility, then."
During his interview with the Nikkei Asian Review Thein Sein has introduced political reforms that had refused to talk about the decline.
He preferred the term ethnic minority rebels and doubled efforts to strengthen the infrastructure and the export and manufacturing sector has been the completion of the peace process, he said.