Yangon, Myanmar - Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party won a majority in parliament on Friday in the Southeast Asian nation's historic election.
With votes still being counted, the Union Election Commission said the National League for Democracy (NLD) party had crossed the 329 threshold of seats needed for an outright majority in both houses of the 664-member parliament.
The country's first free election in 25 years took place on Sunday.
"The people of Myanmar have been dutiful and it is time for the NLD to try to fulfill the wishes of the people," senior party official U Tin Oo told Al Jazera outside of its headquarters. "The NLD has to try hard to change."
Phil Robertson from New York-based Human Rights Watch said it was time to move on from the country's bloody past.
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"Obviously the people of Burma have had their voices heard," Robertson told Al Jazeera. "I think it's important we know who has won this election, and now the very hard work of moving beyond the human rights abuses of the government comes into play."
NLD captured 21 lower house seats on Friday, the election commission said, taking its total to 348 seats with 82.9 percent of the vote now confirmed.
The ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party has won 140 seats so far.