Thai interim PM hopes to hold election soon

Elections first, reforms later, says Niwatthamrong

Published Mon, May 12, 2014 · 10:00 PM

Bangkok

THAILAND's interim prime minister yesterday expressed hope that February's annulled general election could be re-run soon, and said that anti-government protesters would not succeed in getting the Senate to impose an alternative premier.

Ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra's caretaker government has remained in office since the Constitutional Court ordered her and nine ministers to step down last week in a nepotism case.