Power shift: Anutin speaking at a press conference after securing the backing of opposition People’s Party to serve as Thailand’s next prime minister in Bangkok. — AFP
The country’s acting prime minister moved to dissolve parliament, his party said, after the largest opposition group backed a rival candidate to lead the country.
The decision – a potentially legally fraught one – could see the kingdom hold fresh elections before the year’s end, just two years after it last went to the polls in May 2023.
