DHAKA: Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi began talks with the nation's army-backed president on the handover of power Wednesday nearly a month after her opposition party cleaned up at the polls.

Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won nearly 80 percent of contested seats in a November 8 election, which appears poised to end the military's decades-long domination of the country, reports the bangkokpost.com

But the opposition remains wary of a military establishment that has duped them before.

The new NLD lawmakers are not due to take their parliamentary seats until at least the end of January, making for a nervous few months of transition.

The NLD won a similar scale landslide in 1990 polls, only to see the military annul the result and dig in for another two decades.

Suu Kyi, who is blocked from the presidency by the army-written constitution, appealed after her win for "national reconciliation" talks with President Thein Sein and the powerful army chief.

Those talks began on Wednesday in the remote capital Naypyidaw.

"The President and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi are meeting now," Zaw Htay from the President's Office said.

'Daw' is a term of respect in Myanmar.

Suu Kyi is set to meet army chief Min Aung Hlaing in a separate meeting later on Wednesday.

Both the president and army chief were swift to congratulate Suu Kyi on her election win and have pledged to handover power in an orderly fashion.

BDST: 1132 HRS, DEC 02, 2015
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