Thai politics will finally reach its climax with a parliamentary vote for the next prime minister on July 13 and the emergence of a coalition government soon thereafter. How things pan out will depend on the extent of "what you see is what you get" or otherwise.
The interim period since the poll on May 14 has been marked by daily squabbling and petty manoeuvres for the upper hand among junta-appointed senators, outgoing government leaders, and the presumptive coalition government-in-waiting, comprising eight parties and 312 MPs out of the 500 in the lower House, led by the Move Forward Party (MFP) with 151 and Pheu Thai with 141.
