“You need quite a large majority in parliament to be able to outvote the senators if they all vote en masse for one particular candidate, which is what they did last time,” one analyst told CNA.
in the general election on Sunday , an analyst said a day after the country went to the polls.
“But things might not pan out exactly like that. I'd like to believe they'd pan out like that. But there are quite a number of obstacles along the way which could result in something rather different from what the results could superficially suggest at first glance.” “They put more pressure and responsibility on the members of parliament and the Move Forward Party themselves, meaning that they're probably not going to be willing to vote for the Move Forward Party.”Thailand’s opposition securing a stunning win was “not surprising”, given that people had been wanting change, said Ms Sawasdipakdi.
While existing divides based on region, class identity and prior political allegiances were obvious in this year’s election, “generational divide looms the largest as an emerging new cleavage in Thai society”, said Prof McCargo.
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