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PM candidate will not have to address Parliament before Tuesday’s vote

The vote would start not later than 3pm and it was expected to be completed by 5.30pm, he said.

The process calls for the participating MPs and senators to vote one after the other during a roll call.

The Pheu Thai Party, which leads a new coalition aiming to form the next government, will nominate the bloc’s PM candidate for the parliamentary vote.

Srettha Thavisin, one of the party’s three PM candidates, is expected to be nominated. He is a non-MP.

Wan Noor said on Friday that he would use his power as Parliament president to reject a motion by Move Forward Party MP Rangsiman Rome seeking a parliamentary review of the resolution to block the renomination of Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat as prime minister.

Rangsiman had submitted the motion at the previous parliamentary meeting last month.

Wan Noor explained that according to parliamentary meeting regulations, a…

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