Thailand’s next PM: will pro-democracy People’s Party reformists decide?
The People’s Party has demanded that any government it helps form must dissolve parliament within four months to hold a snap election
The People’s Party, whose bold pro-democracy agenda electrified voters at the last general election but unnerved the country’s elite, now seemingly holds the keys to the country’s next government.
The ruling Pheu Thai party, meanwhile, was on Tuesday night moving to dissolve parliament even as it sought to form the next government, Reuters cited a senior party official as saying.
Pheu Thai Secretary General Sorawong Thienthong said his party was considering nominating its own candidate, Chaikasem Nitisiri, for the premiership, or calling a new election.
Her dismissal, the second such ousting of a Pheu Thai prime minister in as many years, has left Thailand with a weakened caretaker government scrambling for a path forward.