Prayut Chan-o-cha Current Affairs, GK & News

Prayuth Chan-ocha elected as new Prime Minister of Thailand

June 8, 2019

The Thai parliament has recently elected ex military government chief Prayuth Chan-ocha as its new Prime Minister. He beat the popular billionaire leader of the anti-junta Future Forward Party, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, with 500 votes to 244 after a 12-hour session that included 10 hours of fierce debate in Parliament on June 5. Prayuth will now ..

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Thailand: Military-backed party takes lead in elections

March 25, 2019

Thailand’s Election Commission  has shown that the military-backed Palang Pracharat Party has bagged 7 million votes in a preliminary series of results with about 90 percent ballots in a long-delayed polls in the country. The party which was linked to the former Prime Minister and an exiled tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, Pheu Thai is behind by ..

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Democrats eyeing 150 seats in Thailand Elections

March 22, 2019

Abhisit Vejjajiva, the leader of the Democrats in Thailand’s oldest political party has stated that he wants his party to be at the centre of government after the elections which happened on Sunday after 5 years of military rule when they had seized control of the nation in 2014 after a lengthy period of street ..

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