- Parliament confirms Anutin as a PM ending the power vacuum for a week.
- The PM receives the support of the feast of people, which holds the plurality of seats.
- Apex Court due Tuesday during the stay at Thaksin hospital.
The next Prime Minister of Thailand is committed to keeping his promise to drive the interim government fractured to new polls.
Friday, the conservative magnate Anutin Charnvirakul was confirmed by the Parliament, putting an end to a vacuum of a week after the eviction of its predecessor, Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
The construction tycoon has tied up a coalition of opposition blocks to eliminate Pheu Thai, the electoral vehicle of the Patriarch of the Shinawatra dynasty in the past.
He received support from people’s day, which has a plurality of seats, provided that it dissolves parliament within four months for new elections.
“I will follow all the agreements,” he said on Friday outside his head office.
“We have to bring back the spirit of the” country of smiles “to our country during my short Laps of power,” he said, adding that he was known not to love conflicts.
Anutin addressed the unexpected flight of Thaksin from the kingdom the day before Friday vote – and a few days before a legal case – to Dubai, where he said that he would visit friends and seek medical treatment.
“There will be no favoritism, no persecution and no revenge,” said Anutin.
The Supreme Court is expected to reign Tuesday in a case on the Thaksin hospital stay after its return from exile in August 2023, a verdict that certain analysts were able to see it imprisoned.
Anutin’s right-wing Bhumjaithai party entered Coalition with Pheu Thai in 2023, but retired in June on the alleged misconduct of Paetongtarn during a telephone call disclosed with the former Cambodian leader Hun Sen.
Shinawatras have been a pillar of Thai policy in the past two decades, competing for the pro-military pro-monarchy establishment which considers them a threat to the traditional social order of the kingdom.
But they faced a set of losses, including the withdrawal of Paetongtarn last week.
Anutin was previously deputy, Minister of the Interior and Minister of Health – but is perhaps the most famous for having held a promise to legalize cannabis in 2022.
Its elevation at the Premièrehip must still be approved by the King of Thailand to become official.
