Mr Pita needs at least 376 votes in a joint sitting of the bicameral legislature. Read more at straitstimes.com.
said on Tuesday he has enough support in the upper house to become the country’s next premier, just days ahead of the new Parliament’s first session.
His eight-party alliance together has 312 seats in Parliament. Under the constitution, to become prime minister, Mr Pita needs at least 376 votes in a joint sitting of the bicameral legislature, including the 250-member upper house, most of whom were chosen by the military when it took power in 2014.
Doubts have lingered over whether Mr Pita has enough support because of his party’s controversial proposal to amend Thailand’s strict royal insult law or lese majeste. The stance has antagonised country’s royalist establishment and old-money elite, including the conservative-leaning Senate.
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