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13/07/2023 04:06 GMT : Thailand's reformist leader faces uncertain PM vote

Thailand's reformist leader faces uncertain PM vote

BBC World Service - Newsday, Thailand's reformist leader faces uncertain PM vote

Pita Limjaroenrat’s progressive Move Forward party won the most seats in May’s election.

Pita Limjaroenrat needs majority support from parliament to become prime minister, which means he must win backing from senators, who were appointed by his military opponents.

Parliament in Thailand is voting on whether the reformist winner of elections in May should become Prime Minister.

US President Joe Biden has said the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had counted on the break-up of Nato, when he invaded Ukraine. At the end of a Nato summit in Lithuania, Mr Biden said the alliance would support Ukraine for as long as it took to win.

And Sir Salman Rushdie says he is physically "more or less OK" nearly a year after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in New York.

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