Suu Kyi seeks talks with rivals after election win

While a win of that magnitude virtually assures the National League for Democracy (NLD) of electing the president as well, Suu Kyi is barred from becoming president by a constitutional hurdle inserted by the junta when it transferred power in 2011 to a quasi-civilian government.

The Nobel Laureate’s supporters credit her with bringing new concrete roads, schools and clinics to the rural area where most people make their living from farming.

The election commission also announced that Suu Kyi had been re-elected to her seat, which was expected given the nearly divine reverence that she commands across the country.

Earlier on Wednesday, Suu Kyi had called on the two leaders, as well as Shwe Mann, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, to meet with her to discuss the outcome of the elections.

According to the latest results, Suu Kyi’s NLD has won 179 seats in the lower house of the national parliament – out of the 216 lower house seats announced so far.

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The military and the largest parties in the upper house and the lower house will each nominate a candidate for president. “He also added that we will meet with political leaders for stability in the post-election transitional period…So, we have replied to Daw [an honorific] Aung San Suu Kyi this morning that we will negotiate bilaterally for the meeting after the UEC has finished its electoral processes”.

Sunday’s election has left the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in tatters, taking just a handful of seats so far, with several party heavyweights bundled out off their constituencies by voters.

Official results trickling in from Sunday’s (Nov 8) poll show the NLD dominating the military-backed ruling party in almost every contest, but the election commission’s tally from hundreds of other seats across this nation of 52 million people has yet to be announced.

A supporter of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party cheers as he watch a polling station count on a giant screen outside the party headquarters in Yangon.

This means Suu Kyi needs strong internal and external support to steer her country along the path of democracy.

The recent election is considered as the most democratic in the country for a quarter of a century. Suu Kyi, the daughter of an independence leader, expressed concern last week about irregularities in advance voting, fraud and intimidation. “I think it’s a fruitful result of our previous activities and our previous commitments”, she says.

Such unambiguous endorsement of Suu Kyi’s victory could smooth the post-election transition, ahead of the first session of parliament which reconvenes on Monday.

As the NLD’s dominance in the polls became clearer, Suu Kyi sent letters to the president, army chief Min Aung Hlaing, and parliamentary speaker Shwe Mann, urging them to recognize the popular mandate.

On Tuesday, she told the BBC that she doesn’t expect a repeat of 1990 this time around.