(Photo: Apichart Jinakul)All 40 MPs from the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) will vote for the Pheu Thai prime ministerial candidate unconditionally because the country urgently needs to have a government, says a party MP. Pai Leeke, a Palang Pracharath MP for Kamphaeng Phet, said on Thursday that the party had not been formally approached by Pheu Thai since key figures of the two parties met at Pheu Thai headquarters on July 23. Pheu Thai, which came second in the May 14 election, later dumped Move Forward and moved to form its own coalition. The votes of the PPRP would bring the total to 278, meaning it would still need the support of 97 senators in a vote for the Pheu Thai prime ministerial candidate. The majority of its original members were defectors from the Pheu Thai Party.

Source: Bangkok Post August 10, 2023 14:36 UTC