The Bhumjaithai Party’s campaign to woo small parties to its side continued on Monday with the addition of two more small parties to the new government coalition.

Caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said that in his next government, his Bhumjaithai Party will take responsibility for security and economic affairs.

Phumtham Wechayachai, a senior figure in the Pheu Thai Party, said the party’s decision to join forces with the Bhumjaithai Party in forming the next government was made with the interests of the people in mind, rather than for the sake of party prestige.

Two endangered thin-snouted freshwater crocodiles were recently seen in the wild for the first time in decades in the far South, where they had been believed extinct, the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation reported. 

The government has instructed the Pollution Control Department (PCD) to intensify monitoring after the cargo vessel SEALLOYD ARC sank off the coast of Phuket.

The Election Commission (EC) is unlikely to order a nationwide recount or call a fresh election, despite allegations of irregularities in several constituencies, political analysts say.