On brink of win, Suu Kyi calls for talks with Myanmar military

November 11, 2015 15:34

Aung San Suu Kyi called for "national reconciliation" talks with Myanmar's president and the nation's powerful army chief today as her pro-democracy party stood poised for a landslide election victory.

Power beckons for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party after it took nearly 90 percent of the seats declared so far.

Although poll officials are yet to announce the NLD as winners, Myanmar's balance of power, dominated for half a century by the army and its allies, appears set to be redrawn.

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.

"Citizens have expressed their will in the election," she said in letters addressed to President Thein Sein, Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing as well as influential parliamentary speaker Shwe Mann.

"I would like to invite you to discuss national reconciliation next week at a time of your convenience."

The letters, shared by the NLD on Facebook, come as her democracy movement continued its blitz of ruling party bases following Sunday's poll.

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