The majority of Thais disagree with efforts by populist Pheu Thai Party to form a coalition government after snapping ties with election winner Move Forward, a recent opinion poll showed.
About 64% of 1,310 respondents said they “did not agree at all” or “disagreed” with Pheu Thai’s plan to lead what it called a reconciliation government, according to the Aug. 15-17 survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, known as Nida. Around a third of those polled supported the move, of which about 20% expressed “strong support.”
Pheu Thai, backed by the family of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has cobbled together a 10-party alliance that now includes a number of pro-royalist and establishment parties in the outgoing Prayuth Chan-Ocha-led government. The new alliance — formed after Pheu Thai broke away from a previous pro-democracy bloc led by Move Forward Party — is backed by 274 lawmakers in the 500-member elected House of Representatives.
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