The decision was announced at a meeting on December 6, which was held in a bid to form a new coalition government in Thailand. It was earlier speculated that Yinglak Shinawatra, a sister of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, would be chosen as the leader of the PTP.

Three political parties - the PPP, Chart Thai and Matchimathipataya - were dissolved earlier last week when Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled that they had engaged in a general electoral fraud last December.