The leader of the Pheu Thai Party said the party agreed to the proposal to form a coalition with the opposition March Forward Party (MFP) and affirmed that there were no plans to form a government with another party.
Speaking at a press conference after the preliminary results of the Thai general election were announced on May 15, the leader of the Pheu Thai Party said that the party agreed with the proposal to form a coalition with the opposition March Forward Party (MFP) and affirmed that there was no plan to form a government with any other political party.
The leader of the Pheu Thai Party also said that with 309 seats in the Thai National Assembly, the above alliance has enough capacity to form a stable government, but the nomination of the prime minister still depends on legal factors.
Hours earlier, MFP leader Pita Limjaroenrat said he would seek to form a six-party coalition, including the Pheu Thai party .
The 42-year-old politician announced that he had contacted Paetongtarn Shinawatra, one of the Pheu Thai Party's prime ministerial candidates, to invite her to join the coalition to form a new government.
At the same time, Mr. Pita also affirmed his readiness to form a new government and become the next prime minister of Thailand.
On the afternoon of May 15, the Election Commission of Thailand (EC) announced that it had completed the vote counting, in which the opposition parties including the MFP won 152 seats, the Pheu Thai party won 141 seats, while the main parties in the current ruling coalition including the Thai Pride Party (Bhumjaithai) won 70 seats, and the People's State Power Party (PPRP) won 40 seats.
Notably, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha's United Thai National Party (UTN) came in fifth with 23 seats, while the Democrat Party won 25 seats.
EC Chairman Ittiporn Boonpracong said voter turnout in this election reached 75.22%, higher than the record of 75.03% in the election held in 2011.
In a related development, Mr. Jurin Laksanawisit resigned as leader of the Democrat Party, the oldest political party in Thailand, to take responsibility for the party's poor performance in the general election on May 14.
In his Line message to Democrat Party members late on May 14, Mr. Jurin congratulated the party's candidates on winning seats and thanked former party leaders Chuan Leekpai and Abhisit Vejjajiva, members of the executive committee and loyal party members for their support.
He said he had submitted his resignation as party leader, adding that he would stay with the party in any capacity.
Four years after the shock of failing to win any seats in the capital Bangkok, which holds the most parliamentary seats in the country by constituency, in the 2019 election, forcing then-party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign, the Democrat Party repeated this poor performance by continuing to lose in the capital in this year's election./.
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