The Pheu Thai Party canceled a meeting today with its political allies in cobbling together the next government one day after a constitutional challenge to its last failed bid to do so.
The meeting was canceled just before noon without a public statement from the party, which seeks to nominate its own candidate to be prime minister following last week’s defeat of Pita Limjaroenrat after lawmakers denied him a second round of voting.
Some political observers speculated that the party canceled the meeting to await a court ruling on whether Parliament violated the constitution by denying a second-round vote for Pita last week, when a majority voted that doing so would violate the rules. Others believed it was due to a lack of progress in winning more support.
The ombudsman of the Parliament yesterday asked the Constitutional Court to consider a Move Forward petition…
