BANGKOK - Thailand's Election Commission will release unofficial results of Sunday's landmark poll at 4pm (5pm Singapore time) on Monday (March 25), it said, amid allegations of election irregularities.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK - Thailand's Election Commission will release unofficial results of Sunday's landmark poll at 4pm on Monday , it said, amid allegations of election irregularities.
According to the Election Commission's tally, with 94 per cent of the votes counted, Palang Pracharath had secured 7.7 million votes and Pheu Thai 7.2 million. In third place was the Future Forward Party, with 5.3 million votes. The Palang Pracharat party said on Monday it aims to form a government after winning the most votes, Reuters reported, with party spokesman Kobsak Pootrakool saying the party expects to gather 251 seats in the 500-seat House of Representatives to form a government.
“We’ll try to form a government coalition right away because that’s how people voted,” Sudarat said. “We stood by our position that we won’t support the continuation of the military regime.” To wield power in Parliament, a party or coalition must secure at least 376 seats, representing more than half of the 750 combined Lower House and Senate seats.
Pheu Thai belongs to a political faction linked to deposed and fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra which has won every election since 2001. Royalist military factions, however, revile him for his populist policies mostly targeted at the populous upcountry regions.
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