Thailand Election Prime Minister

Updated 1048 gmt 1848 hkt march 25 2019 thailand s prime minister prayut chan o cha talks to the media after voting at a polling station in bangkok on march 24 2019 during thailand s general.

Thailand election prime minister. While the pro thaksin pheu thai party the former ruling entity emerged as the winner of the election and biggest party the new pro junta palang pracharat. As in the preceding 2019 election the parliament s vote for prime minister will take place in a joint session with the 250 seat senate according to the constitution s provisional terms. This made a re run in several stages necessary depending on the security situation.

Both houses of thailand s parliament on wednesday elected prayuth chan ocha as the country s next prime minister. Voters elected a new house of representatives the lower house of the national assembly. Opinion polls preferred party.

Voting was disrupted in 69 of 375 constituencies by the opposition that had called for a boycott. It was the first election since the 2014 thai coup d état that installed coup leader general prayut chan o cha as prime minister and the first held in accordance with the 2017 constitution which was drafted under the ruling military junta the elections selected the five hundred members of the new house of representatives. Thai prime minister acquitted of ethics breach retains post thailand s prime minister prayuth chan ocha leaves after a press conference at government house in bangkok thailand tuesday dec.

The prime minister of thailand thai. Prayuth comfortably reached the 375 vote threshold more than half of the 750. Naː jók rát tʰà mon triː literally chief minister of state is the head of government of thailand the prime minister is also the chair of the cabinet of thailand the post has existed since the revolution of 1932 when the country became a constitutional monarchy.

Early general elections were held in thailand on sunday 2 february 2014 after prime minister yingluck shinawatra asked king bhumibol adulyadej to dissolve parliament more than a year early owing to thailand s political crisis. T hailand s prime minister prayut chan ocha looks set to retain the premiership when the new parliament meets at the end of may or early june after the coronation of the thai king in may. The 2019 thai general election was held in thailand on 24 march 2019.