Election success for Aung San Suu Kyi could see Burma sanctions lifted She will lead a small minority in a parliament in which 25 per cent of seats are reserved for the armed forces. And though her voice will carry far beyond the parliament, her new role will force her to address her domestic audiences as well as the international community. To achieve her democratic aims, she must persuade the military-led establishment she no longer poses a threat to them. As the daughter of the nation's independence hero and first army chief, she believes she will be able to persuade the army to withdraw from politics and to embolden Burma's people to lose their fear and assert their rights. She has already said she supports a peace and reconciliation process to address past human rights abuses. "I want to win the military over for peace and progress," she said last week. President Thein Sein's advisers believe her job has just become much tougher and that she will now have to prove her worth as a parliamentarian and show that she can reach out to old enemies and make new alliances. Sonny Nyunt Thein, the head of the influential Myanmar Egress policy and training centre, said she will have to overcome the fear her landslide will generate within the military establishment. She will also have to develop her NLD from campaigning for democracy into a broader political party with policies beyond constitutional reform to the rice bowl concerns of an overwhelmingly poor country, he said. To achieve her ambitions for Burma she has to be a real leader rather than an icon, he said.