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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
The Election Commission (EC) said today that reporting of the unofficial election results, using the Rapid Reporting system and released on election night, were accurate although attempts to hack the system were detected. The EC’s Office said that the Rapid Reporting system was jointly developed by the EC’s Office and the Digital Government Development Agency,
Thailand’s supreme commander today clarified why the board of the alumni foundation of the Armed Forces Preparatory School removed fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from the list of outstanding alumni, citing the latter’s improprieties, as recently seen on social media. General Pornpipat Benyasri did not give details of Thaksin’s alleged improprieties, but said that
Incumbent Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has expressed his concern over the psychological effects on people who have been closely monitoring political developments since Sunday’s election and is pleading with the media to be more discreet in their news presentation in order not to add to their stress. Colonel Athisith Chainuwat, assistant spokesman of the government,
Thailand’s fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been removed from a list of outstanding alumni of the Armed Forces Preparatory School, due to his sentencing to a term of imprisonment, his escape from punishment and the stripping of his police rank. The decision to delete Thaksin’s name was adopted at a meeting of the
The Bhumjaithai party will wait for the official election results from the Election Commission before it makes a decision over which of the two political camps to join in forming a post-election government, according to Mr. Supachai Jaisamut, a key member of the party. He declined to comment today on the move by the Pheu Thai and five other parties from the so-called “pro-democracy” camp to announce their cooperation in forming a coalition
Pheu Thai party, which has apparently won the most MP seats from last Sunday’s general election, has unveiled an alliance which it claims will form the next coalition government. The Pheu Thai-led alliance includes Future Forward and five other smaller parties and which claims to have gathered altogether more than 255 seats to be able
The rival attempts by Palang Pracharat and Pheu Thai to cobble up a post-election coalition government promise to be a lengthy and messy political endeavor. Both camps in the political divide, one led by Palang Pracharat and the other by Pheu Thai, will be engaged for days, if not weeks, in intense lobbying in a
The Thai Embassy in New Zealand has claimed that the late arrival of over 1,500 ballots cast by overseas voters was beyond its control because they were dispatched by air cargo from Wellington on Monday March 18th. Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) has ruled all 1,542 ballot sheets from New Zealand are null and void because
Palang Pracharath and Pheu Thai parties have launched rival efforts to cobble up a coalition government, with each claiming mandate from the Sunday election which sees the two parties clinching the most seats but with neither having a decisive lead. Each also has its own interpretation of people’s mandate. Pheu Thai claims its mandate from
The Palang Pracharat Party looks set to win around 120 seats, give or take a few, in the general election, enough to help incumbent Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha retain political power at the expense of the opposite alliance led by the Pheu Thai Party. Pheu Thai and Palang Pracharat were engaged in a very tight
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
