Aung San Suu Kyi to take seat in parliament on April 23

The veteran dissidents National League for Democracy (NLD) won 43 seats in April 1 by-elections.It will be for the first time that the main opposition force will sit in national parliament dominated by the military and its political allies.NLD spokesman Nyan Win said the Nobel laureate would travel to the capital Naypyidaw by April 22 in time to attend a new session of the lower house the following day. Parliament has been in recess since March 23.Suu Kyis election to political office marks the latest sweeping change in the country formerly known as Burma after decades of outright military rule ended last year.The pro-democracy leader spent 15 of the past 22 years locked up by the former junta and was released in late 2010 just days after a controversial election won by the militarys political proxies.