Eleven small political parties in Thailand announced Monday they will support the military-backed candidate to form the next government, seven weeks after the country’s first general election in five years of army rule.
Their announcement came after no single party won an absolute majority in the March 24 polls. The military-backed Palang Pracharath party won 115 seats in the 500-member House of Representatives, while its rival, the Pheu Thai party associated with self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, won 136.