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Family members and loyalists to the powerful former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra were on Wednesday elected to head a new party, reinvigorating the division that has characterised and paralysed Thai politics for over a generation.

A KEY founder of a new political party that is openly pro-Prayut Chan-o-cha vowed yesterday to form an alliance after the election in a bid to help the junta leader return as head of government.

WITH A promise of inclusive democracy to resurrect politics from its “lost decade”, the young-blood Future Forward Party was launched yesterday.

Car-parts billionaire Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit will submit a request to the Election Commission on Thursday to found a new political party.

PRO-DEMOCRACY billionaire Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, who has vowed to seriously consider establishing a new political party, said yesterday that the situation would be clearer in the second half of this month.

MOST PEOPLE disagree with the idea of new political parties being formed to support General Prayut Chan-o-cha returning as prime minister after the next election, an opinion survey has found.

THE DEMOCRAT Party’s support base in the South may be affected by a new political party that will be set up by Suthep Thaugsuban, who was previously a key Democrat politician, according to a deputy party leader.

FORMER DEMOCRAT SAYS SUTHEP WILL FOUND GROUP TO STOP RE-EMERGENCE OF PHEU THAI

Veteran politicians from major and mid-sized parties have got together to set up a new party called the Citizens’ Power Party.

MAJ-GENERAL Songklod Thipparat may have had a low profile as a member of the military’s working group for reform preparations for people’s happiness, but that has changed in recent months.

Maj-General Songklod Thipparat on Monday rejected speculation that he was setting up a political party to support the junta ahead of the coming national election, saying he had not yet registered the party with the Election Commission.

Maj-General Songklod Thipparat may not have been well known publicly as a result of his low profile as a member of the military’s working group for reform preparations for people’s happiness, but all that has changed in recent months.