Despite the deluge of results in their favour, election officials have resisted pressure to declare the NLD winners.
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“I would like to invite you to discuss national reconciliation next week at a time of your convenience”.
Results from Sunday’s election are slowly being announced. The 70-year-old, known by her supporters simply as “The Lady”, will return as the member of parliament for the Kawhmu constituency in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city and Suu Kyi’s birthplace.
A quarter of seats are reserved for the military.
She said: “I make all the decisions because I’m the leader of the winning party”.
The military, which took power in a 1962 coup and brutally suppressed several pro-democracy uprisings during its rule, gave way to a nominally civilian elected government – with strings attached.
Analysts say hard months lie ahead, with the army still in charge of key levers of power, protected by a constitution it wrote gifting the military 25 per cent of all parliamentary seats as well as key security posts.
The 70-year-old democracy icon is constitutionally barred from becoming president, because her late husband was British, as are her two children.
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.
Lower house speaker Shwe Mann, a former general once tipped as a possible compromise candidate for the presidency, also accepted the invitation to talk.
Now the NLD has once again won the election by a landslide, and a hopeful electorate is holding its breath.
Government beckons for the NLD after it took almost 90 per cent of the seats declared so far.
He insisted there was no attempt to delay the declaration of results from Sunday’s election.
Ms Suu Kyi told the BBC she does not expect the army to steal away her party’s election victory, as it did in 1990. She said prejudice and hatred are not removed easily and majority of the people want peace. A majority of the parliamentary seats have been won by NLD.
Still, observers believe that the military has little to gain by interfering again because as part of a reforms program to allow democracy gradually, it has already secured its position with constitutionally guaranteed powers. The top vote-getter will be president, while the two runners-up will be vice presidents.
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Army Chief Min Aung Hlaing respects the outcome of Myanmar’s election and is willing to work with a new government led by Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, a senior government official said.
