Lawmakers in Myanmar are gathering for a new session of parliament where they are expected to choose the country’s first democratically elected government in over 50 years.
It is an assembly dominated by MPs from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, which won 80% of elected seats in November’s poll.
Aung San Suu Kyi leads her National League for Democracy (NLD) party into Myanmar’s parliament, taking a majority of seats and starting the process of installing a democratically elected government.
Hundreds of NLD parliamentarians, many of them former political prisoners during successive military regimes, took their seats in the lower house on Monday morning.
A quarter of all seats are reserved for the military, which also retains key ministries under the constitution.
One of the new parliament’s first jobs will be to choose a new president.
Outgoing leader Thein Sein steps down at the end of March, but Ms Suu Kyi, who spent 15 years under house arrest, is constitutionally barred from standing because her sons are British.
However, she has vowed to rule the country through the new leader.
