By Thai Newsroom Reporters
ANUTIN CHARNVIRAKUL was today (Sep.5) voted as prime minister with the help from People’s MPs in addition to those attached to a Bhumjaithai-led coalition of parties in the House of Representatives.
In a roll-call procedure for a total of 492 MPs, the Bhumjaithai leader was given 311 votes against 152 votes for Pheu Thai rival Chaikasem Nitisiri to become Thailand’s 32nd prime minister on condition set by the People’s that he dissolve the House to call a general election in four months after his government’s policy statement has been delivered at parliament and hold a public referendum for the people nationwide to decide whether to amend the coup junta-designed constitution of 2017 by an elected Constitution Amendment Committee.
The naming of the elected prime minister was obliged by law to be endorsed with a simple majority vote, currently accounting for 248.
Anutin has replaced former Pheu Thai prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra who was deposed by the Constitutional Court last Friday, thus turning the Pheu Thai into the opposition bloc alongside the People’s who have resolved to not join the Bhumjaithai-led coalition government.
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Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakulm, right above at Parliament today, and a file photo of him on Front Page. Both images: Thai Rath
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