Four years after the shock failure to win any seats in Bangkok in the 2019 election, the Democrat Party repeated its weakness by continuing to come up empty-handed in the capital in this year's election.
Mr. Jurin Laksanawisit has resigned as leader of the Democrat Party, the oldest political party in Thailand, to take responsibility for the party's poor performance in the general election on May 14.
In his Line message to Democrat Party members late on May 14, Mr. Jurin congratulated the party's candidates on winning seats and thanked former party leaders Chuan Leekpai and Abhisit Vejjajiva, members of the executive committee and loyal party members for their support.
He said he had submitted his resignation as party leader, adding that he would stay with the party in any capacity.
Four years after the shock failure to win any seats in the capital Bangkok, which holds the most parliamentary seats by constituency in the country, in the 2019 election that forced then-party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign, the Democrat Party repeated its poor performance by continuing to lose in the capital in this year's election.
Preliminary vote counting results show that the two parties, the March Forward Party (MFP) and the Pheu Thai Party (Pheu Thai), are far ahead of their rivals in the general election that took place on May 14 in Thailand.
According to the Election Commission of Thailand (EC), as of 1:45 a.m. on May 15, the vote counting for parliamentary seats by constituency had been completed at 92,341 out of 95,137 polling stations, reaching a rate of 97.06%.
Meanwhile, about 38.5 million votes for party-list MPs (100 MP seats will be allocated according to the percentage of votes each party gets) have been counted, reaching a rate of 73.72%.
Accordingly, the MFP party is leading in both the constituency parliamentary race with a predicted 113 seats, and the party-list parliamentary race with nearly 13.5 million votes (35%).
Thus, if this result is maintained, MFP can win about 150 seats out of 500 seats in the Thai House of Representatives in the next term.
Pheu Thai is close behind with 112 constituency MP seats and more than 10.3 million party-list MP votes, equivalent to 26.79%, giving the party the potential to achieve a total of about 140 seats in the House of Representatives to come second in the 2023 general election.
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