the joke in all this is that Prayut Anutin Prawit and the rest don't need to get elected or win a vote, all they do is be affiliated to a party usually leader which somehow exempts them from actually being directly elected, it is a fudge and scam of any proper democracy I am aware of, it takes bits of various systems and leaves out the criticle parts that make them fair and functional then fudges them into an unworkable mess - it is a con, the people go out and vote and then wonder why the same people are in charge even though nobody voted for them