(March 4): Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul inched closer to forming a new government after the country’s election commission certified results of the Feb 8 vote, confirming his ruling party’s decisive win over a poll-favourite progressive rival. Anutin’s Bhumjaithai Party won 191 seats to emerge as the single-largest party in the 500-member House of Representatives, the first electoral win for a conservative party in decades. Its chief opponent, the pro-democracy People’s Party, came a distant second with 120 seats. One constituency seat, which Bhumjaithai won according to preliminary results, remains to be certified. It also pushed economic stimulus and short-term measures to support growth, rather than the more fundamental bureaucratic reforms touted by the People’s Party.

Source: The Edge Markets March 04, 2026 11:30 UTC