AP, Bangkok
Thailand’s leading parties wooed possible partners for a coalition government on Monday, a day after allies of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came out on top in the country’s first election since he was ousted in a September 2006 military coup.
The pro-Thaksin People’s Power Party won just under half the seats in the 480-member lower house of parliament, delivering a powerful message that the exiled prime minister’s mostly rural supporters would be happy to see him return despite allegations he was corrupt and abused power. [Read more]