Denmark hails Myanmar election

Suu Kyi also sent letters separately to President U Thein Sein and Parliament Speaker U Shwe Mann, calling for holding similar dialogue next week on the basis of national reconciliation, saying the talks will be aimed at calmly and peacefully realizing the desire of the people expressed through Sunday’s general election.

NLD earned 291 seats in the three levels of the parliament, these includes the 78 seats in the House of Representatives, 29 seats in the House of Nationalities and 19 seats in the Region or State Parliament.

The UEC has so far announced 627 elected parliament representatives.

Mr Shwe Mann said on his official Facebook page that he had received the letter and plans to meet Ms Suu Kyi next week to discuss national reconcilation.

The British Embassy yesterday issued a statement with Cameron’s response to the election, as results continued to indicate a massive victory by opposition leader Suu Kyi.

President Thein Sein, the leader of the present military rule in the country, has said he will respect the election results.

Suu Kyi, 70, is barred by Myanmar’s constitution from becoming president because she’s married to a foreigner and has children with foreign passports.

Taiwan on Wednesday congratulated Myanmar on the successful completion of its general elections on November 8, the first poll since a nominally civilian government was introduced in 2011, ending almost 50 years of military rule.

India today said it trusts that the electoral outcome in Myanmar, in which pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s party is poised for a landslide election victory, will be respected by all parties. The former general has led Myanmar’s military-backed government for five years.

After Suu Kyi was freed after the 2010 elections, she participated in by-elections in April 2012 after recovering the party’s legal status.

NLD co-founder Tin Oo told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the party expects to win about 80 percent of the votes – putting it on pace with the party’s 1990 landslide that the military annulled.

Analysts say hard months lie ahead, with the army-scripted constitution gifting the military 25 percent of all parliamentary seats and key security posts.

“We would like to congratulate the National League for Democracy because it is leading in the election results”, the army said in the statement.

With 95 seats in the upper house, out of 116 results confirmed by election officials, the NLD is now in a position to select that house’s nomination for president. Another provision bars Suu Kyi from the presidency because her sons hold foreign citizenship.