The Candidates for Thai Prime Minister

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The Candidates for Thai Prime Minister

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Who’s who of the candidates running:

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Update on the election as polls close:

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I'm surprised at the reports of an unexpectedly low voter turnout after all the hype about the election.

Votes are still being counted. At the time of this post there has been no official announcements about who won what.

The Palang Pracharath Party is the General's party

The Pheu Thai Party is the party that supports Taksin

No matter which party wins, my guess is little or nothing will change with regard to immigration rules.
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I really don't understand the election or the results, but at least for now, from what I can gather, it appears the current Prime Minister, Prayut Chan-O-Cha, will remain Prime Minister, but the Pheu Thai party won enough legislative seats that a coalition government may be formed.

We'll see. Again my guess, emphasis on guess, is, for us gay farang virtually nothing will change.
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Pheu Thai, Palang Pracharath vying to form government

25 Mar 2019

The Pheu Thai and Palang Pracharath (PPRP) parties are already manoeuvering for the lead in forming a coalition government with the election still too close to call.

Pheu Thai leaders, including chief prime ministerial candidate Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, on Monday cited the unofficial results for seats in justifying their announced intention to form the government.

Pheu Thai will have 135 MPs and PPRP 117 according to unofficial results so far released by the Election Commission.

Khunying Sudarat said the party will approach other parties which also oppose the prolongation of the junta's rule over the country.

Pheu Thai needs help from other parties to garner the 251 votes for the right to nominate the prime minister -- who is then subject to a vote from the 500 MPs together with the 250 senators. Only the Future Forward Party shares Pheu Thai's explicit aim to end the power of the National Council for Peace and Order. But with only 80 seats projected for the FFP, that would not be enough. Other allies would be needed.

Pheu Thai secretary-general Phumtham Wechayacha repeated the message that the party with the most seats should be allowed to form a coalition government.

Although PPRP is second to Pheu Thai on the total number of constituency seats, the pro-regime party edged its rival on the popular vote, with 7.9 million against 7.4 million.

PPRP spokesman Kobsak Pootrakul claimed the party's winning the popular vote was justification enough to approach other parties to join in a coalition and set up a government.

PPRP leader Uttama Kobsak Pootrakul told the Inside Thailand programme on Monday that the party needed around 280 seats to ensure the stability of a new government.

The Action Coalition for Thailand formed by former street protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban supports Prime Minister Prayut continuing in power, but has only five seats.

The Bhumjaithai Party, with 51 seats in the bag, is a key party - not having committed itself either way.

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said after announcing his resignation on Sunday night that the future direction of the party would be decided by the executive board.

Mr Abhisit has made clear on several occasions that the Democrats will not join hands with Pheu Thai.

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