BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's opposition People's Party has yet to decide which camp it might back in the forming of a new coalition government, an official said on Monday, as two rival groups vie for its support.
The People's Party, the biggest force in parliament with nearly a third of house seats, held a meeting of its lawmakers on Monday to discuss the issue and would meet again on
Tuesday, spokesperson Parit Wacharasindhu said, adding its preference was for an early dissolution of parliament and a new election.
The party has said it will not join the next government.
Earlier, Thailand's Constitutional Court dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office for an ethics violation after only a year in power, in another crushing blow to the Shinawatra political dynasty that could usher in a new period of turmoil.
Paetongtarn, who was Thailand's youngest prime minister, becomes the sixth premier from or backed by the billionaire Shinawatra family to be removed by the military or judiciary in a tumultuous two-decade battle for power between the country's warring elites.
In its verdict, the court said Paetongtarn violated ethics in a leaked June telephone call, during which she appeared to kowtow to Cambodia's former leader Hun Sen when both countries were at the brink of an armed border conflict. Fighting erupted weeks later and lasted five days.