Will it be Pita? A guide to this week’s vote for a new prime minister

[webfact]

 

This Thursday (July 13) will see a crucial vote in Thailand’s Parliament when 500 MPs and 250 senators convene to select the country’s 30th prime minister.

 

Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat is the main candidate for the top job as he is backed by a coalition of eight political parties with a combined 312 MPs.

 

Led by Move Forward, which won the May 14 election with 151 seats, the coalition commands a majority in the House of Representatives that would be enough to elect Pita as PM if only MPs could vote.

 

However, a provisional clause in the Constitution allows the Senate to join the Lower House in electing the prime minister. Anyone nominated for the PM seat requires majority support from both Houses, or at least 376 votes.

 

That means Pita needs at least 64 more votes to achieve the required majority. And it won’t be easy for him and Move Forward to achieve that goal, analysts say. Some point to a high possibility of Pita failing to win the PM’s seat.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/will-it-be-pita-a-guide-to-this-weeks-vote-for-a-new-prime-minister/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-07-12

 

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[jcmj]

No one in the general public will know the outcome until it actually happens. The old goats are trying everything they can to stop it or postpone it. Hopefully we will get some good news soon. 

[Joseph98765]

If he wins, this forum will be a bit boring...once 95% of the posts here are complaining or gossip about useless PM...with Pita we are all happy...????5555

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat is the main candidate for the top job as he is backed by a coalition of eight political parties with a combined 312 MPs.

And the un-elected hand picked mob of senators on the other side of the isle.

[h90]

that 312 are far from sure. It can be a bit more, when some other party MPs vote for him, or it can be a bit less, if some change their mind, or get sick

[Artisi]

15 minutes ago, h90 said:

that 312 are far from sure. It can be a bit more, when some other party MPs vote for him, or it can be a bit less, if some change their mind, or get sick

What a fantastic in depth analysis of the situation...... 

Edited July 12, 2023 by Artisi

[rwill]

I would be shocked if Pita does get the needed votes.

 

Not that I don't want him to be PM.  I just think I am more realistic about what will happen.

 

 

 

[Pink Mist]

Off topic post bringing Trump into the discussion has been removed.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Sounds like the anti-democracy forces, predictably, are gathering momentum in their bid to deny his selection as PM...

 

Double blow for Thailand's Pita as legal cases mount on eve of PM vote

BANGKOK, July 12 (Reuters) - Thai prime ministerial hopeful Pita Limjaroenrat was dealt a major setback on Wednesday when two separate complaints against him gained momentum, threatening to derail his leadership bid on the eve of a crucial vote on the premiership.

 

Pita's supporters, many of them younger voters opposed to the royalist military's involvement in politics, called for protests later on Wednesday, raising the possibility of another round of turmoil in two decades of fractious Thai politics.

 

The Constitutional Court said it had accepted a complaint filed by a lawyer against Pita and his election-winning Move Forward Party's that said its plan to reform a law prohibiting royal insults amounted to an attempt "to overthrow the democratic regime of government with the king as a head of state".

 

(more)

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thai-court-decide-eligibility-case-pm-hopeful-pita-media-poll-body-source-2023-07-12/

 

Edited July 12, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[khaowong1]

Since practically no one on this Forum has any say in the outcome, we will see what we will see.  

[Artisi]

9 hours ago, khaowong1 said:

Since practically no one on this Forum has any say in the outcome, we will see what we will see.  

No one  - is the correct statement, ????