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Royalists foil Pita Limjaroenrat. Here’s what happens now

  • Move Forward’s Pita Limjaroenrat fell 51 votes short of the majority he needed from the 749 members of Thailand’s bicameral National Assembly for the top job.
  • Next vote is scheduled for Wednesday, where Limjaroenrat may get a second chance.
  • Pheu Thai, the second-placed party in May’s elections, may nominate its own prime minister candidate.
  • Move Forward may risk dissolution by Thailand’s Constitutional Court after a complaint alleging the party’s plan to reform lèse-majesté law seeks to “overthrow” the democratic government with the king as head of state.

Thailand’s Pita Limjaroenrat may get another shot at the country’s prime minister job next week.

But his path to potential power remains unclear, especially if the leader of the country’s Move Forward Party does not budge from his election pledge to amend a law that prohibits criticism of the monarchy.

Limjaroenrat fell 51 votes short…

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