Thailand, which has been under a caretaker government since last week, saw competing efforts to resolve its political crisis on Wednesday, as the country’s main opposition party agreed to support its rival to be the next prime minister while the party in power said it wants a new election. The Pheu Thai party, which heads the caretaker government, announced it was asking the country’s king to dissolve Parliament and call a new poll instead of having the current House of Representatives vote for a new prime minister. No date has yet been set for a vote in Parliament, nor was it clear if the king would endorse dissolution. The Constitutional Court last week dismissed Paetongtarn Shinawatra as prime minister for breaching ethics laws in a phone call with Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen about tensions over competing claims along their border, which erupted into a deadly five-day armed conflict in July.

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