The Union Election Commission announced 63 more results for Parliament’s lower house on Wednesday, which included Suu Kyi’s name as the victor from Kawhmu, which is part of Yangon state.
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President Thein Sein, a former general, said on Wednesday his government also acknowledges the outcome and he was prepared to meet with Ms Suu Kyi once the final results are tallied.
“I make all the decisions because I’m the leader of the winning party”.
He has urged the country to tackle religious intolerance and promote full democracy.
Nonetheless, hundreds of thousands of people in Myanmar are disenfranchised, including Rohingya Muslims in the west of the country, who are denied citizenship, and residents of conflict zones where the election commission canceled voting.
Meanwhile, Mr Ye Htut said the government also agreed to Ms Aung San Suu Kyi’s proposal for a meeting to discuss national reconciliation.
There was no immediate confirmation of the call by the US State Department. The government would work with the NLD once the official results are released, the statement said.
In letters published in local media, Suu Kyi had requested a joint meeting with the commander in chief of Myanmar’s armed forces, the chairman of the parliament and Thein Sein.
Obama communicated the message during a Wednesday phone call with his Myanmar counterpart, Information Minister Ye Htut said on his Facebook page Thursday. But Suu Kyi’s supporters remain anxious at how the army will respond to a mauling at the polls, with memories still keen of the 1990 election – won by the NLD but then swatted away by the army. This paragraph in Reuters’s report of the incoming election results sums up a few of the quirks (to put it mildly) of Myanmar’s historic election.
While its political proxy, the USDP, faces annihilation at the polls, the army has its stake in future carved out under a constitution it wrote.
A quarter of the 664 parliamentary seats are set aside for the army.
Even with a win for her party, Suu Kyi can not become president under the country’s constitution as she is married to a British citizen and her children have United Kingdom passports. Analysts say the key to a functioning government will be cooperation between Suu Kyi and the military.
With about 40% of seats declared, the National League for Democracy (NLD) has taken almost 90% of the vote. It was not immediately clear what margin she had won by. It is unclear how Aung San Suu Kyi and the generals will work together.
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The new Parliament is expected to meet early next year and select a new president in March.
