Rohingya News Agency - abc

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has returned to parliament, along with dozens of rivals defeated by her pro-democracy party's landslide election victory, as the legislature begins overseeing the country's delicate transition.

Ms Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from top political office but has vowed to rule "above" the next president, who she will select following her National League for Democracy's (NLD) landslide win in the November 8 polls.

The NLD's election victory against the current army-backed ruling party is set to dramatically reshape the country's political landscape.

But it will be the politicians from the military proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party who will continue to dominate parliament as the pre-election legislature returns for a final session that will last until at least the end of January.

Ms Suu Kyi was mobbed by dozens of journalists as she arrived at the parliament on Monday, but declined to make any comment as she takes a low profile approach to victory.

The 70-year-old is banned from becoming president by the junta-era constitution because she married and had children with a foreigner.

The Nobel laureate has nevertheless pledged to rule an NLD government through a puppet president, without revealing a candidate or setting out how the arrangement would work.

Ms Suu Kyi has the power to select a president because of her party's parliamentary majority, with the candidate chosen in a vote of the new NLD-dominated legislature in February.

Observers predict a fierce period of political horsetrading, centred on the uncertainty over the presidency as the country creeps out of the shadow of the military.