Tomorrow’s fraught PM vote postponed: house speaker

The parliamentary vote for prime minister scheduled for tomorrow will be postponed until after Aug. 16, according to House Speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha.

The postponement comes as parliament waits for the Constitutional Court’s verdict on Move Forward Party’s petition opposing the parliamentary resolution to block Pita Limjaroerat’s re-nomination as a prime minister candidate.

Additionally, the Pheu Thai party was supposed to hold a press conference today to announce a new coalition, but this was also delayed.

These announcements are the latest in a series of opaque political maneuvers following Pheu Thai’s decision yesterday to form its own coalition government without the election-winning Move Forward Party. Pheu Thai leader Cholnan Srikaew announced that it would not include the MFP due to their policy of amending the controversial lese majeste…