BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul (pic) inched closer to forming a new government after the country’s election commission certified results of the Feb 8 vote, confirming his ruling party’s decisive win over a poll-favorite progressive rival.
Anutin’s Bhumjaithai Party won 191 seats to emerge as the single-largest party in the 500-member House of Representatives, the first electoral win for a conservative party in decades. Its chief opponent, the pro-democracy People’s Party, came a distant second with 120 seats.
