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Democrat leader Abhisit Vejjajiva has quit the helm of Thailand’s oldest party after the general election’s results showed the political camp perform well below par and could end up with a humiliating number of seats. Nearly 50 per cent of votes have been counted and the Democrat Party was winning fewer than 50 seats. Abhisit
The pro-Prayut Palang Pracharat party is leading in Bangkok after 42% of votes have been counted, Mrs. Wichuda Meklanuwong, director of Bangkok’s Office of the Election Commission, reported Sunday evening. Unofficial results of the incomplete count show that the Palang Pracharat Party received 475,673 votes, followed by the Future Forward Party’s 460,700 votes and Pheu
The Pheu Thai Party and Palang Pracharat Party are going neck and neck in the official count of the Election Commission. The Palang Pracharat Party, as of 7.15 pm, is winning 136 seats, compared with Pheu Thai’s 133. Pheu Thai, according to the unofficial results, is winning 113 constituency seats and 2o party list seats.
Air quality in Mae Sai district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai has deteriorated to critical, with levels of PM2.5 dust particles reaching 355 microns, about seven times the safe level of 50-microns, according to the Pollution Control Department reported this morning (Sunday). The level of PM10 particulate in the atmosphere has also
Bhumjaithai party leader Anutin Charnvirakul has made clear that the party has not yet decided which of the two camps to join, the Pheu Thai-led or the Palang Pracharat-led coalitions, and will wait until after May 9th when the official election results are expected before announcing any alliance. Mr. Anutin appears to have become a
A projection by Thai PBS in cooperation with Super Poll showed that Pheu Thai remain the election champion, winning 163 seats (153 constituency seats and 10 party list seats) this time. Palang Pracharat comes second winning a combined 96 seats. The Democrat Party comes third, with a combined 77 seats. The projected results make the
The “Hong Kong incident”, which went viral on the social media this weekend, has made it “even more difficult” for two major “swing parties” _ Bhumjaithai and Chartthaipattana _ to work with Pheu Thai in a government, highly-informed sources associated with the two mid-sized camps have told ThaiPBS. Initially, it was thought that a diplomatic
Voting in Bangkok has been “very active”, according to a top Bangkok Metropolitan Administration official. Silapasuay Raweesaengsoon, BMA’s permanent secretary, said that despite the very lively voting activities by Bangkokians, there was no problems regarding the work of polling booth officials. She said she expected that the voter turn-out for Bangkok can be as high
A 96-year-old northeastern woman in Kalasin province is believed to be one of the oldest voters to cast a ballot in today’s general election this morning. The small, elderly woman, whose name was not released, had to be helped to cast her vote as she could not reach the ballot box at polling station in
Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha voted at a polling station in Phyathai area this morning and said he was glad to see active voting by Thai people and called for unity in solving problems facing the country. Gen Prayut spoke briefly to an army of Thai and foreign journalists after joining a long queue of
