If she takes the post of foreign minister, she would have to give up her seat in parliament and leadership of the National League for Democracy party, or NLD.
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U Htin Kyaw of the NLD, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won the presidential race last week.
A list of 18 names was announced after it was submitted to parliament and read out by the speaker, Mann Win Khaing Than.
On Thursday, outrage greeted President Htin Kyaw’s plans to merge the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Ministry of Culture into a single ministry, Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs.
Shila Nan Taung, a Baptist lawmaker from Kachin state, also praised the list of appointees.
Myanmar’s constitution, drafted by the outgoing military rulers, prevents Suu Kyi from becoming president because her two sons have British passports.
President-elect Htin Kyaw told the parliament on March 21 that the incoming government will work to achieve a corruption-free society. As the president enjoys wide powers under the constitution, it would theoretically have been sufficient to have herself appointed minister in the president’s office, so she could call the shots from there. Others include Thein Swe, a former political prisoner, and Naing Thet Lwin, an ethnic minority from the Mon National party.
Expectations are high among Myanmar’s 51.5 million people that Ms Suu Kyi will be able to resolve the country’s many problems, from the need for faster economic growth to ethnic tensions.
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party will form the first government to be elected democratically.
“It doesn’t matter how many ministries she takes, as she will run the whole government anyway”, said senior NLD lawmaker Win Htein, according to Reuters news agency.
Suu Kyi, 70, is the daughter of Myanmar’s independence hero and has towered over the country’s democracy movement as the figurehead of its spirited, non-violent struggle against decades of military rule. NLD spokesman Zaw Myint Maung later confirmed that she will lead the foreign ministry, AFP reported.
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The names for three security posts-ministers of Defense, Home Affairs and Border Affairs-were also revealed, with these positions filled by the Burma Army as per a constitutional framework that entrenches a military role in Burma’s politics. But he said: “I would only note that she can still develop the next line of management, as any head of government would”.
