Thai lawmakers are set to vote for a new prime minister on Friday, with a former businessman known as the “cannabis king” expected to become the country’s third prime minister in a year.
Anutin Charnvirakul, from a family that owns a major construction company and who has been kingmaker in Thailand for the past decade, is best known for his support for the decriminalisation of cannabis.
He stands to inherit a country where five prime ministers have been removed by the judiciary over the past 17 years, and whose economy has struggled to regain momentum after the Covid-19 pandemic.
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