Thailand’s Pita Limjaroenrat fails to win enough votes to become prime minister despite a solid House majority after an overwhelming number of unelected senators opposed his candidacy during the bicameral vote
Pita says he won't give up on his prime ministerial bid despite him being 51 votes shy of the required threshold.
Following the vote, Pita said he would not give up on his prime ministerial bid despite him being 51 votes shy of the required threshold. But the outcome had become increasingly inevitable, with signs conservative MPs of the lower house and the pro-military senators would not give him their support. But an overwhelming majority of the unelected Senate opposed him, with only 13 supporting him out of the 250 senators appointed with backing from the military. Many of the senators had expressed open hostility against Pita.
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