Al Jazeera, Naypyidaw :Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s opposition leader, and the country’s outgoing president have agreed on a smooth transfer of power to the new government, three weeks after her party won a decisive election victory.Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, asked President Thein Sein to ensure a peaceful transition so as not to raise concerns among the public, a government official said after Wednesday’s hour-long meeting in the presidential palace in Naypyitaw.”President Thein Sein agreed,” Ye Htut, the presidential spokesman, said.”This is the final victory of the reform process carried out by current government led by President Thein Sein, as there is no precedent in Myanmar for a government transferring power peacefully to an election winner.”Aung San Suu Kyi also met General Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s military commander, in the afternoon.The meetings come amid speculation that Aung San Suu Kyi could manoeuvre to become president despite the current constitutional restrictions, and three weeks after she sent a letter calling for “national reconciliation”.However, changes to the constitution were not discussed in the meeting with the president, which lasted for about 45 minutes, Ye Htut said.Shwe Mann, a former general and lower house speaker, met Aung San Suu Kyi on November 19, to discuss the transition.NLD swept the historic parliamentary election last month, winning solid majorities in the lower and upper houses. The party also won most of the regional parliament seats.While those victories mean that voters want to make “tremendous changes” in the country’s politics, Aung San Suu Kyi cannot carry out those changes without the support of the military establishment, said Myo Thein Yan, a Yangon-based political analyst.”In the constitution, a total of 25 percent of seats in parliament as well as three key ministers in union government and all key security ministers in regional government are reserved for the military,” Thein Yan told the agency.The current constitution drawn up during the rule of the former military junta also prohibits Aung San Suu Kyi from being nominated president, because she was married to a foreigner and both her children are British citizens.
