Overview

• Lawmakers approved Anutin with a comfortable majority in the 492-seat lower house after the opposition People Party swung its support to him.
• The vote follows last week’s judicial removal of Paetongtarn Shinawatra, which forced a realignment in parliament.
• Anutin pledged to dissolve parliament within four months and call elections, while saying he will move quickly to form a cabinet.
• Only the king can dissolve the legislature, and the monarch must also formally endorse Anutin’s nomination.
• Thaksin Shinawatra left Thailand by private jet hours before the vote, said he diverted to Dubai during a medical trip, pledged to return by September 8, and faces a Supreme Court ruling on September 9 over the legality of his early release.