The combined houses of parliament will reconvene only after the November 8 vote, the first nationwide poll in a quarter of a century to be contested by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's hugely popular National League for Democracy (NLD).
"There will be no legislative meetings before the election in November," Soe Yin of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) told AFP, adding that parliament would only reconvene in an emergency.
Suu Kyi is barred from the top political job by the constitution, drafted by the country's former junta rulers, who kept her locked up for some 15 years as they tried to quash the democracy movement.
The Nobel laureate was recently thwarted in her attempts to change aspects of the charter by hardliners in the army-backed ruling party and unelected soldiers, who are guaranteed a quarter of seats in the legislature under the constitution.
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Shwe Mann, who remains in his influential role as party speaker, had cultivated a close working relationship with Suu Kyi and many speculated that he could be endorsed by the NLD as a potential compromise candidate for president.
But Suu Kyi this week said the NLD would choose someone from its own ranks, shrugging off criticism that she has failed to cultivate an heir within the party, which remains dominated by ageing veterans of mass 1988 democracy protests.