00:00 Parliament in Thailand has rejected election winner Peeta Limjarnath's bid to become Prime Minister.
00:06 The leader of the Move Forward party has failed to win the votes needed to secure the top job.
00:12 The path forward is unclear as the House Speaker has yet to indicate if Peeta can try to run for a second time.
00:19 For more on this story, here's Matt Hunt reporting from Bangkok.
00:24 The bid to become Prime Minister on the first round for Peeta Limjarnath, who was the leader of the Move Forward party, completely collapsed today.
00:31 He needed to gain 376 votes to win, however he only achieved 324.
00:37 182 votes were made against him and 199 were abstentions.
00:42 And it's notable that 13 of the votes from military senators were actually for Peeta Limjarnath, but the rest account for the abstention.
00:51 So this is seen largely as another obstruction by the military, which was the one, the organization that appointed the senator.
00:59 So this was only the first bid and Peeta was only the he was the only candidate that was put forward for this vote.
01:06 So at this point, I would say that it's no surprise, but people are no less angry about the outcome of this result,
01:14 because this is not really reflective of the popular vote that happened in May in which we saw the Move Forward party win greatly.
01:21 So there is already a second vote set to happen on the 19th, which is next week.
01:25 And at that point, his party can put him forward as a candidate to become the prime minister again.
01:31 However, it is possible that other parties could put forward prime ministerial candidates at that point.
01:36 And so a lot of people believe that this will be the time for Pue Thai, the second place, also opposition party, to put forward their prime minister candidate and potentially form the next government.
01:46 So it's hard to tell exactly what happens, but that is definitely on the table.
