Yangon, Safar 1, 1437, Nov 13, 2015, SPA -- Exactly five years after she was last released from house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party learned Friday that it had won a majority of seats in Myanmar's historic election, dpa reported. The National League for Democracy (NLD) won 238 out of 298 declared seats in the lower house and 110 out of 133 declared seats in the upper house in Sunday's poll, according to the Union Election Commission (UEC). The total of 348 means that the NLD will be able to ensure that their nominee for president becomes the next holder of the country's top executive post. Suu Kyi is barred from holding the presidency due to the terms of the constitution, but has said she will run the government from "above the president" after the country's first openly contested elections in a quarter of a century. Suu Kyi is now due to meet the country's most important figures to discuss the transition of power. --SPA 12:54 LOCAL TIME 09:54 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w