Pita Limjaroenrat’s bid to become Thailand’s next Prime Minister was rejected on Thursday by the country’s junta-appointed senate in the parliament’s first round of voting for its next leader
Thailand’s election in May
He came into the session with the backing of a 312-member coalition of the National Assembly’s newly-elected 500-member lower house but received the support of only 13 of 249 junta-appointed senators. But with 705 votes cast before the session adjourned, Pita mustered a total of just 324 votes in favor of his candidacy with 182 votes cast against him and 199 abstentions, which effectively count as votes against.
by holding shares in a media company—an issue that remains to be resolved—during the National Assembly’s pre-vote debate on Pita’s candidacy, his party’s opposition to the country’s royal defamation, or, laws took center stage instead, marking a rare moment that the monarchy was explicitly discussed in parliament.
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