The Constitutional Court of Thailand on November 20 disqualified leader of the opposition Future Forward Party Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit as a member of parliament for illegally owning shares in a media company while running for election last March.
Thailand’s Democrat Party on June 4 night voted to join the Palang Pracharath alliance, sealing the deal for the party to form a government with a slim majority of 254 votes.
Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) announced on May 8 the list of 149 member of parliaments (MPs), with 26 political parties entering the House of Representatives of the National Assembly following the March 24 general election.
Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) on May 7 announced the list of 349 candidates who won seats in the House of Representatives in the March 24 election.
The Election Commission (EC) of Thailand said that outcomes of the April 21 election re-run will not change the results of the general election, which took place on March 24.
The Election Commission (EC) of Thailand has ordered the recount of votes at two polling stations and organisation of new elections at six other polling stations because the numbers of voters did not match the numbers of ballots.
The Pheu Thai Party, which backs former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, held a press conference in Bangkok on March 27 to announce the formation of a political alliance with six pro-democracy parties.
With 94 percent of the votes counted, Pheu Thai Party of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra won the most MP seats at 135 while the Palang Pracharath of current Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha came second with 98 seats, the Bangkok Post and the Nation reported on March 24.
Political parties said on March 22 that they were ready for the election scheduled for March 24, while introducing new policies to win voters’ support.
The incumbent Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-o-cha has been the most popular choice for the post of prime minister in the next general election, according to a recent poll conducted by the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA).
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha confirmed on February 8 that he will contest in the upcoming March 24 election as a candidate of the pro-military Palang Pracharat Party.
The Palang Pracharat Party of Thailand has nominated Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha as one of its three candidates for the premiership in the general election on March 24.
Several members of the Thai cabinet resigned on January 29 to focus on the Palang Pracharath Party’s campaign, ahead of the general election scheduled for March 24.
Khunying Sudarat, chairwoman of the election strategy committee of Thailand’s Pheu Thai party, is top on the list of the 10 people who are popular favourites to become the next prime minister of the country, according to the National Institute for Development Administration (NIDA) poll.
Major political parties in Thailand on April 1 began the process of reconfirming their memberships and resumed official contact with their members for the first time since the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) issued a ban on political activity following the coup d'état in May 2014.
The Pheu Thai Party’s acting spokesman Anusorn Iamsa-ard on October 5 denied reports that former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra would form a government in exile in the United Kingdom.
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