“We have high expectations that the NLD-led government will listen to ethnic voices”, said Gint Kam Lian, who won an upper house seat – one of four national parliament and two state parliament seats the party claimed.
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The ruling Communist Party invited her for a China visit in June, where she met President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, the traditional greeting place for foreign leaders.
The election Sunday, with an 80 percent voter turnout, was an indication her country is ready for her.
Aung San Suu Kyi, center, leaves after casting her ballot at a polling station in Burma on November 8.
But the comfortable majority gives Suu Kyi’s party control of the lower and upper houses, allowing it to elect the president and form the government.
The military automatically receives 25 per cent of the seats in each house under the constitution.
Independence came six months later, when his daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi, was only 2 years old.
Recording her appreciation for the incumbent President Thein Sein, Gandhi said that without his statesman like leadership and guidance, this democratic transition would not have been possible.
Suu Kyi was freed from more than a decade under house arrest in 2010 and Myanmar’s army instituted initial democratic reforms the following year, including freeing jailed dissidents and lifting a few free speech restrictions.
Nyan Win said the NLD would use the meeting to get a better sense of “how to build a new government”, adding that the party also plans to tap “intellectuals” to lead its ministries and will begin to hammer out “laws to develop the country” after forming its administration.
A Rohingya Muslim woman who has a citizen card show her inked finger after voting at a polling station in a refugee camp outside Sittwe.Suu Kyi defied calls by ethnic parties not to run candidates in minority-dominated seats.
Richard Horsey, an independent expert on Myanmar, said there was no indication of the NLD “clamouring for retributive justice”.
The underwhelming pinnacle of the day’s celebrations has so far been the unceremonious unveiling of a giant piece of graffiti artwork which depicts Daw Suu Kyi and the phrase “The Way We Trust”. There is speculation Tin Oo, 89, a former army general and NLD veteran, will be appointed president, but the politically autocratic Suu Kyi has kept her silence on the matter.
The lower house speaker Shwe Mann has also been invited to talks but his political stock appears low after losing his seat and falling out with many senior figures from the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party.
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On Thursday morning, US President Barack Obama called Thein Sein, the general-turned-president, to congratulate him on the handling of the elections. Aung San Suu Kyi can not become president as she is barred by the Constitution and just who will be the next president of Myanmar is beyond the powers of divination of any of the players.
