Thai prime minister election results released Ba Yu was elected as the new prime minister of the government.

　　CCTV News:On the 5th local time, the Thai Parliament held a joint meeting of the upper and lower houses to jointly elect the new Prime Minister. According to the results of the voting statistics that night, the Thai Parliament announced that the current Prime Minister, Ba Yu Zhan Aocha, was elected as the new Prime Minister.

　　On the same day, the joint meeting of the upper and lower houses of Congress officially began at 11: 00 am local time. Members of the Thai People’s Power Party nominated the current Prime Minister Ba Yu as the candidate for the new government, while members of the New Future Party of Thailand nominated its leader Tanatong as the candidate for the prime minister.

　　Subsequently, members of all political parties had a heated debate on the qualifications of the two candidates. After nearly 11 hours of discussion, it was around 10 pm local time on the 5th. Chuan leekphai, President of the National Assembly, announced the beginning of voting to elect the Prime Minister of the new government from the two existing candidates.

　　The voting session of the day was an open vote, and members of the upper and lower houses expressed their support to Congress in turn. According to the final vote count, a total of 747 members of the 750 members of the upper and lower houses of Congress voted. Tanatong, the leader of the New Future Party, won 244 votes, while the current Prime Minister Ba Yu won 500 votes and three abstained. Ba Yu was successfully elected as the new Prime Minister and became the 30th Prime Minister of Thailand.

　　News background:

　　Thailand held its first general election in nearly five years since the coup on March 24th this year, and elected 500 members of the House of Commons. Different from the previous general elections, according to the latest constitution revised after the coup, the candidate for Prime Minister of Thailand is jointly elected by members of the upper and lower houses of Parliament, and all 250 members of the House of Lords are selected by the National Peacekeeping Order Committee led by the current Prime Minister Ba Yu.

　　In 2014, the Thai military launched a coup to overthrow the Thai government led by Yingluck. The former army commander Ba Yu led the establishment of the National Peacekeeping Order Committee, which served as the Prime Minister and has been in power ever since. (CCTV reporter Luo Wei)