The Nobel peace laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) will finally take her seat at the head of Myanmar's government when the new parliament sits on Monday.
It comes 26 years after Suu Kyi won a substantial parliamentary majority in the parliamentary elections in 1990 -- a result that was subsequently nullified -- and two months after the NLD's landslide victory in the 2015vote.
On Friday, outgoing President Thein Sein pledged that members of the old government would "cooperate with the next government to bring peace and development to the country,"according to a statement on the president's website.
"Whatever has been done during the past five years is aimed at the restoration of peace and tranquility," the former military commander said, as parliament members marked their final day in office with karaoke and traditional dance.
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