https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/5\/15\/23724403\/thailand-election-results-2023-pro-democracy-military-rule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Progressives \u2014 and other members of Thailand\u2019s pro-democracy opposition parties \u2014 scored a stunning victory in the country\u2019s elections.., dealing a major blow to military-backed incumbents. Their overwhelming success, which came as a shock to political observers of the region, indicated that Thai voters are interested in a change from the current military-led regime and sent a significant message in favor of a more representative government.
\nThe progressive Move Forward Party, led by Pita Limjaroenrat, is projected to win 151 seats in the House \u2014 the highest of any group \u2014 while the populist opposition party Pheu Thai, aligned with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, will likely win 141 seats. Collectively, the two parties will now hold at least 292 of 500 seats in the House.”<\/p>\n
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“The military has long had a hold on Thai politics, a grip only strengthened by military coups in 2006 and 2014. That latter coup was led by current Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who ushered in a new constitution that gave the military unprecedented power over government. One of those post-coup reforms threatens Move Forward\u2019s coalition: 376 members of parliament are needed to elect a new prime minister, and the 250-person Senate was appointed by the military.<\/p>\n
Move Forward said Monday that several parties have agreed to join its governing coalition, giving it control of 309 of parliament\u2019s 500 seats. That leaves Pita Limjaroenrat 67 votes short of the majority needed to become prime minister. It\u2019s unclear whether the Senate will work to cobble together a military-aligned minority government, or split its support between the two factions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,1123,431,259,985,386,479],"class_list":["post-10870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-coup","tag-democracy","tag-military","tag-thailand","tag-voters","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10871,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions\/10871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}