00:00Thailand's biggest party in parliament has yet to decide whom it will back to form the next government
00:06following the dismissal of Prime Minister Pei Tongtan Shinawad last week.
00:10Pei Tongtan was removed by the Constitutional Court over an ethics violation after just one year in office.
00:18The opposition People's Party, holding nearly a third of the seats, has emerged as a potential kingmaker.
00:24It held a meeting today but did not reach a conclusion and will meet again on Tuesday.
00:31The party has previously said it does not want to join a government
00:34but is willing to give its votes to any group that commits to a referendum on a mandating constitution
00:41and dissolving parliament within four months.
00:45People's Party is a reincarnation of the Move Forward Party
00:48that won the 2023 election on an anti-establishment platform
00:53but was blocked from power by lawmakers aligned with the royalist military.
00:59The process to elect a prime minister in Thailand could be protracted
01:03with no fixed timeline for forming a new government.
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