Election authorities have said it could take another 10 days or so to announce a victor.
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The NLD said in a press release on Wednesday that Myanmar President U Thein Sein had offered congratulations on the party’s success in polls.
“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.
But Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) is on the verge of tipping the balance of power after capturing more than 85 percent of seats declared so far from Sunday’s election – a huge stride in its long democracy struggle.
Suu Kyi, who also won a seat in the parliament representing her district, specifically requested a joint meeting with President Thein Sein, the current leader of the parliament and the chief of Myanmar’s armed forces.
In a letter to the president she said it is “very crucial that the government implements, for the pride of the country and the peaceful desire of people” the results of Saturday’s elections.
She sent similar letters to President Thein Sein and other senior officials.
Earlier on Wednesday, Suu Kyi has asked to meet with the two leaders, and the Shwe Mann, speaker of the lower house.
“The Union Election Commission has been delaying intentionally because maybe they want to play a trick or something”, NLD spokesman Win Htien told reporters at Ms Suu Kyi’s house after a party meeting.
The election commission has released results of about two-thirds of the parliamentary seats being contested.
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party is expected to score an overwhelming victory in the elections to choose a new Parliament.
The ruling Communist Party hosted Aung San Suu Kyi in June, when she met with China’s president and party leader, Xi Jinping, in a sign of Beijing’s willingness to adapt to the changing political landscape.
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 reform process that the generals initiated a few years ago, which included freeing Aung San Suu Kyi, proceeded to national parliamentary elections on Sunday.
He said Suu Kyi “will start working for reconciliation first”.
Her path to power is blocked by an army-scripted 2008 constitution that bars anyone with foreign children – or husband – from the presidency. Despite the ban she has said she would rule “above the president” as the head of the party.
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Under a constitution it wrote, 25 percent of all parliamentary seats are reserved for military appointees.
