Date set for Suu Kyi to enter parliament

The announcement was made on Monday by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party (NLD) which won 43 seats in parliamentary by-elections earlier this month. Suu Kyi was elected member of parliament.

NLD spokesman Nyan Win said that the leader was expected to travel to the capital Naypyidaw by April 22.

The party will be the main opposition group in the military-dominated parliament.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner spent 15 years under house arrest and was released in 2010.

Her election to political office marks the latest sweeping change in Myanmar after decades of outright military rule ended last year.

In 1990, the NLD won parliamentary vote by a landslide but was denied power by the junta for two decades.

But a transition of power began in 2010 that led to the release of many political prisoners and the relaxation of media restrictions among other reforms.

Myanmar’s current government is run by military figures from the old regime, which has been accused of rights abuse.

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