The House secretary-general announced a royal command appointing Bhumjaithai Party leader Anutin Charnvirakul as Thailand’s prime minister at Bhumjaithai Party headquarters on Sunday morning.

A majority of Thais want parliament to be dissolved without waiting the four months set out in a political pact, and support constitutional change section by section rather than a full rewrite, according to an opinion survey released on Sunday.

A district court in Finland has sentenced Vernu Vasunta, CEO of berry company Kiantama, to three and a half years in prison for 62 counts of aggravated human trafficking involving dozens of Thai workers, reported Xinhua, quoting national broadcaster Yle.

The Bhumjaithai Party has confirmed that it is considering reviving the government’s “Khon La Khrueng” (Let’s Go Halves) co-payment scheme as part of efforts to stimulate Thailand’s slowing economy.

A headline in an international media outlet describing prime minister-elect Anutin Charnvirakul as “Thailand’s cannabis king” has some people fuming, but those in his own Bhumjaithai Party are not among them.

National security is now on the election agenda for political parties at a time when public trust in them has nosedived v The PP backing Bhumjaithai’s bid to form a new government does not bode well for Pheu Thai, observers say.