Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi returned to parliament on Monday along with dozens of rivals freshly hammered by her National League for Democracy's (NLD) landslide election victory as the legislature begins overseeing the country's delicate transition.
Suu Kyi was mobbed by dozens of journalists as she arrived at the parliament, but declined to make any comment as she takes a low profile approach to victory.
NLD spokesman Win Htein said the party was acutely conscious that the size of its victory mirrors its success in 1990 elections, which were ignored by the then ruling generals who clung to power for another two decades.
"This time, although we are quite glad that we won, we worry that history may repeat itself. We don't think the transition will be 100 percent perfect", he said.
Suu Kyi, 70, has sought to take a conciliatory approach following the elections, dampening victory celebrations and requesting talks with President Thein Sein, army chief Min Aung Hlaing and parliament speaker Shwe Mann – heavyweights from the former junta.
All three have accepted the invitation but only Shwe Mann, whose eagerness to work with Suu Kyi made him enemies among the military elite, has set a date for the meeting – on Thursday.
Suu Kyi has criticised the long handover process. "This is quite incredible; nowhere else in the world is there such a gap between the end of the elections and the forming of the new administration and certainly it is something about which we should all be concerned", she had said ahead of the elections.
Suu Kyi was mobbed by dozens of journalists as she arrived at the parliament, but declined to make any comment as she takes a low profile approach to victory.
NLD spokesman Win Htein said the party was acutely conscious that the size of its victory mirrors its success in 1990 elections, which were ignored by the then ruling generals who clung to power for another two decades.
"This time, although we are quite glad that we won, we worry that history may repeat itself. We don't think the transition will be 100 percent perfect", he said.
Suu Kyi, 70, has sought to take a conciliatory approach following the elections, dampening victory celebrations and requesting talks with President Thein Sein, army chief Min Aung Hlaing and parliament speaker Shwe Mann – heavyweights from the former junta.
All three have accepted the invitation but only Shwe Mann, whose eagerness to work with Suu Kyi made him enemies among the military elite, has set a date for the meeting – on Thursday.
Suu Kyi has criticised the long handover process. "This is quite incredible; nowhere else in the world is there such a gap between the end of the elections and the forming of the new administration and certainly it is something about which we should all be concerned", she had said ahead of the elections.
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