Once the seats in the House of Representatives are decided by Thai voters, the race for the premiership begins.
BANGKOK: A general election kicked off on Sunday in Thailand, where a new set of parliamentarians in the House of Representatives will be elected to form the next government.More than 2 million people had already turned up for early voting on May 7.Four hundred of them will be chosen in constituency elections.
Under the current constitution, each political party can submit up to three candidates for the premiership. However, only parties with at least 25 elected Members of Parliament can nominate a prime minister. At the last election in 2019, the Pheu Thai Party won the most number of seats in the Lower House with 136 MPs but it was unable to garner enough support to form a coalition to govern the country.
The 42-year-old is the leader and sole prime ministerial candidate of the Move Forward Party. His popularity grew quickly over the past few months. Her aunt, Yingluck Shinawatra, was also a former prime minister of Thailand. Her democratically elected government was toppled by a military coup in 2014 led by then-army chief Prayut Chan-o-cha.
The fifth place was undecided. Three per cent of the respondents had not made up their minds about who should be the next prime minister.
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