Myanmar's Opposition Wins Right to Form New Government Independently

After a drip-feed of results from the Union Election Commission, the NLD on Friday sailed through the two-thirds majority it needs to rule, claiming 348 parliamentary seats with a number of results yet to be declared.

Although she is barred by the constitution from becoming president, Suu Kyi recently has said she will become the country's de facto leader, if her party forms the next government.

According to the updated election result, the NLD has so far won 238 seats in the House of Representatives out of 298.

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.

A poster bearing a portrait of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) is seen at a tea and coffee shop in Yangon on November 12, 2015.

She said last week she would be "above the President" if her party won the parliamentary election.

The global community has welcomed the election, with U.S. President Barack Obama calling both Suu Kyi and the president to offer his congratulations.

"As far as we know from the early signal, there is a majority for NLD in the coming parliament", said presidential spokesman Ye Htut.

Religious and racial tensions involving the country's ethnic Rohingya minority and other Muslims - a cause of deadly clashes that have left as many as 140,000 people internally displaced - are another challenge, complicated by the nationalist politicking of influential radical Buddhist monks.

Suu Kyi has two British sons from her now deceased British husband.

On Tuesday morning, following enormous rallies on the two preceding days, she told a crowd of supporters not to provoke the losers: "I want to remind you all that even candidates who didn't win have to accept the winners but it is important not to provoke the candidates who didn't win to make them feel bad".

But four years ago, relations with the West began to thaw when the junta handed power to a quasi-civilian government, led by former regime leaders. Another 110 are reserved for military appointees, while voting has reportedly been canceled in the remaining five electable lower house seats because of security concerns.

Sunday's election was the first openly contested poll in Myanmar - also known as Burma - in 25 years.

However she made clear she will run the government - which she says will promote "national reconciliation".

The defiance of the military dictatorship that saw her kept under house arrest for 15 years won her a Nobel Peace Prize and iconic status as a symbol of democracy among ordinary Burmese and around the world, where she was compared to Nelson Mandela. (Burma's achieved independence from Britain in 1948.) "We have been released from dictatorship at last", she said, before cautiously acknowledging that the military isn't going away anytime soon.

The political parties will also have to participate in the drafting of a framework for political dialogue with eight ethnic armed groups that signed a nationwide ceasefire agreement on October 15.

"They've been saying repeatedly they'll respect the will of the people and that they will implement the results of the election", she said.