Me. This is the news of live from berlin thailands promilitary party takes the lead in much anticipated elections vote counting is still underway but partial results give the edge to the party supporting the ruling military regime critics accuse the military of having staff the political deck in its favor for life in bangkok for analysis its also coming up. Terrifying moments at sea of crew shift breaks down into dangerous waters off the norwegian coast will have an update on the rescue efforts for hundreds stuck on board. And is too recent made facing
a revolt from within her own cabinet reports say the british Prime Minister could be pushed out and made dissatisfaction at her handling of. Get the details from our correspondent but. Im michael thanks for joining us early results from thailands long delayed General Election show the countrys military party with a lead over its main challenger thats with Election Officials saying that ninety percent of ballots have now been counted. Thi
another thing so we have to wait and see which party gets how many seats and then very important michel what coalitions are they going to form it s already clear that the military party has enough seats to elect the next prime minister because they also get the seats of the appointed senate appointed by the military that s two hundred fifty seats so they have those and they don t need a very many seats they ll need one hundred twenty six out of five hundred in the lower house of parliament which is what voters in elected today the question is are they going to get with their coalition partners are they going to get enough votes in the lower house to actually be able to pass legislation meaning will they get a simple majority of the seats in the lower house or not if that doesn t happen then we re headed for a political deadlock because then it s going to be most likely the current military dictator pirates on a child who s going to be the next prime minister. thailand but without the
questions about the fairness of the poll saying the rules say for the military. bringing in now our correspondent best in heartache he joins us from bangkok bastion the election commission is reporting most of the votes are in full military is slightly ahead what more can you tell us about the initial voting results so far . i think what s clear from the results that we ve got so far is that it s a very strong result for the military party maybe stronger than a lot of people expected and look behind me this is the party headquarters of the prototype party that s the party of former prime minister yingluck shinawatra who was ousted by the military in the back in two thousand and fourteen and they re going to be disappointed with this result of course because they expected to be the winner now we ve not all the votes are counted yet so we have to wait how that plays out and also the popular vote is one thing and the seats in parliament are