Thailand’s Pheu Thai Party gained support from a rival military-backed party on Thursday, potentially helping it in its bid to form a government ahead of the prime minister’s vote in parliament next week.
The United Thai Nation Party, or UTN, the party that fielded former coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha as its prime ministerial candidate in May’s elections, said on Thursday it might help Pheu Thai form a government.
Prayuth, who’s currently interim prime minister, first got here to power in a coup against the Pheu Thai-led government in 2014.
“The United Thai Party will join the government along with Pheu Thai,” UTN spokesman Akaradej Wongpitakroj told reporters on Thursday.
“We agree to join to move the country forward together,” he said.
The runners-up within the Thai elections comply with a coalition with the federal government party
The runners-up within the Thai elections comply with a coalition with the federal government party
Thailand has spent greater than five months under an interim government after the leader of the election-winning Forward Party was twice blocked by conservative and pro-military opponents in his bid to change into prime minister.
Former Move Forward ally, the second-place Pheu Thai party, took over efforts to form a government earlier this month.
Pheu Thai’s previous governments, backed by the billionaire Shinawatra family, were overthrown in military coups in 2006 and 2014, when the party’s interests clashed with the country’s powerful old-money elites and the royalist army.
Pheu Thai is anticipated to nominate real estate tycoon Sretta Thavisin as prime minister in a vote scheduled for next Tuesday and desires the support of greater than half of the bicameral legislature – including the military-appointed Senate.
The party managed to achieve the support of 13 other political parties, but it’ll need support from the unelected Senate.
