{"id":76277,"date":"2026-02-08T11:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/08\/thai-voters-head-to-the-polls-with-three-main-parties-vying-to-form-government"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:51:00","slug":"thai-voters-head-to-the-polls-with-three-main-parties-vying-to-form-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76277","title":{"rendered":"Thai PM\u2019s party on track to win election in blow to pro-democracy camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staunch royalist Anutin Charnvirakul\u2019s Bhumjaithai party builds commanding lead on disappointing night for rivals<\/p>\n<p>The party of the Thai prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul, a staunch royalist and shrewd political dealmaker, is on track to win the most seats in Sunday\u2019s election after a disappointing night for his rivals in the youthful, pro-democracy People\u2019s party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are likely to take first place in the election,\u201d the 59-year-old told reporters at the headquarters for his Bhumjaithai party in Bangkok. \u201cThe victory today belongs to all Thais, no matter whether you voted for us or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/08\/thai-voters-head-to-the-polls-with-three-main-parties-vying-to-form-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staunch royalist Anutin Charnvirakul\u2019s Bhumjaithai party builds commanding lead on disappointing night for rivalsThe party of the Thai prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul, a staunch royalist and shrewd political dealmaker, is on track to win the most se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93,2873,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-thaksin-shinawatra","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76286,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76277\/revisions\/76286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}