Thailand Election Result 2019

Thai parliament elects ex junta leader as pm.

Thailand election result 2019. The final results of the march election give no party an absolute majority and suggest that political divisions will remain if not intensify. Thailand s opposition party won the most seats of any political party in the country s first election since a military coup five years ago but will still likely not be able to choose the country. Thailand s opposition says the vote was rigged as the senate was hand picked by the military.

One of the stars of sunday s election was the newly formed future forward party which received 5 3 million votes at the last count putting it on track to become thailand s third biggest party. A thai electoral official fills results during ballot counting after voting closed in the general election at a polling station in a temple in chiang mai on march 24 2019. By grant peck for the diplomat may 10 2019.

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.