“He said America would continue cooperating with the Myanmar government”.
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In a recent interview, Aung San Suu Kyi said she is confident that her party, the National League for Democracy or the NLD, won majority in the parliament in the recent Myanmar elections.
Ye Htut said the government will pursue a peaceful transfer of power “in accordance with the legislated timeline”.
“The public has expressed their opinion”, Suu Kyi said in letters she sent to Aung Hlaing, Thein Sein and parliament Speaker Shwe Mann asking for a meeting.
Anxiety is heightened by the memory of an NLD election landslide in 1990.
The statement thanked all stakeholders for participation in the elections and making it a success, praising and honouring Suu Kyi for her efficiency in winning people’s support for her party.
“Our government will respect the people’s decision and choice and will hand over power as scheduled”, President Thein Sein also pledged in a post on his Facebook page.
The commission also announced that Suu Kyi had been reelected to her seat, which was expected given the nearly divine reverence that she commands across the country.
Earlier on Wednesday, Suu Kyi has asked to meet with the two leaders, and the Shwe Mann, speaker of the lower house.
“It doesn’t make sense that they are releasing the results piece by piece”.
The NLD has so far taken 134 of 149 seats declared of the 330 seats not allocated to the military in the lower house – enough to suggest it is on course for a comfortable absolute majority that would secure its candidates for president and one of the two vice president positions.
A quarter of the 664 parliamentary seats are set aside for the army. In 1990, the military called an election that Suu Kyi and her allies won.
Myanmar’s information minister says President Thein Sein and the military will respect the results of the “free and fair elections”.
Cameron said the sight of thousands lined up to vote during Sunday’s election, a few for the first time in their lives, was “a moving moment demonstrating the remarkable progress Burma has made in recent years”. While her letters seek conciliation, Suu Kyi has become increasingly defiant on the presidential clause as the scale of her victory has become apparent. A reform process that the generals initiated a few years ago, which included freeing Aung San Suu Kyi, proceeded to national parliamentary elections on Sunday.
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Her sons are British as was her late husband – who died in Britain while she was under house arrest in Myanmar. They have reportedly agreed to hold talks on national reconciliation with her after the final results are announced.
