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Article: Thai Rak Thai Decides to Form Two-Party Coalition
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 11, 2001
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The Thai Rak Thai party has decided to form a two-party coalition
with the New Aspiration Party for the next Thai government, a Thai
Rak Thai official told Xinhua Thursday afternoon.
The official, reluctant to be named, said his party has made the
decision at the executive meeting earlier on Thursday.
The coalition will be the one that includes the least number of
parties in the country's political history. In the past the Thai
governments were usually formed by five or six parties, sometimes up
to nine.
According to unofficial government figure, the Thai Rak Thai has
won about 257 seats in the 500-member House of Representatives in
Saturday's election, making itself the first party in the ...