The head of the party, Pheu Thai and probably Prime Minister is Yingluck Shinawatra, 44, the sister of Mr. Thaksin, who was ousted in a coup in 2006 now lives in Dubai to avoid imprisonment for abuse of power.
Preliminary results showed Pheu Thai with 264 seats, more than half of the 500 and enough to form a single party of the Government. The incumbent Chief minster, Abhisit Vejjajiva, resigned Monday as head of the Democratic Party, which won only 160 seats. He promised to play a constructive role in the opposition.
The electoral commission said that it was investigating charges of electoral fraud that could exclude certain candidates and affect the size of the victory of Pheu Thai. He said that he would announce the final count within 30 days. The political and electoral challenges in sight, Pheu Thai immediately began to negotiate with the parties that could add to the total of Government and provide safety in number.
Referring to the total of the seats in the coalition, Ms. Yingluck said at a press conference: "two hundred and ninety-nine is a beautiful number."
Political business with no experience, Ms. Yingluck would become the first woman Prime Minister of the Thailand. After his victory, she denied that she would simply be a front for his brother. "There are a lot of work ahead--to tackle the economic difficulties and lead the country on the path of reconciliation," she said. "" "". These tasks fall on me. »
At the press conference, she said that the Government's priorities would be economic development and "reconciliation", a term not defined which has also been used by the outgoing Democratic Party during its period of discord to power.
"Corruption is another problem that we solve", she said, repeating a pledge to campaign also echoed the commitments of the previous Governments. She repeated the denial of his party to a policy which it had stated at the beginning of his campaign: a political amnesty that could pave the way for the eventual return of Mr. Thaksin, the figure more Thai politically divisive.
The vote was s justification for Mr. Thaksin, 61, a champion of populist of long-marginalized poor in rural Thailand, who was elected Prime Minister twice, in 2001 and 2005 and removed in a coup in September 2006.
"I think that all parties must respect the decision of the people," he said Sunday, speaking at a station in Thai television of Dubai, where he lives, to escape a conviction for abuse of power. "If any country does not respect the decisions of its people, it is impossible he will find peace."
The vote had wider resonance, part of a hierarchical society rebalancing the Thailand which so far has played in the streets, challenging the elite establishment and giving more voice to the poor.
"It is a slap in the creation of what they have done since the military coup in 2006," said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Director of the Institute of security and international studies at Chulalongkorn University. "It's a Thai new who must learn to live with."
He added: "this whole election is all about voice awakened." "Discovery of these people that they can have access and be connected to the system".
The Pheu Thai Party is supported by many "red shirt" protesters, representing the poor rural and urban, who committed themselves to Mr. Thaksin and organized a two-month rally that paralyzed parts of Bangkok a year ago.
The Democratic Party, led by Mr. Abhisit, is the establishment, including the royalist party, old-money elite and members of high-ranking army and at the top of a traditional hierarchical system of policy and social in Thailand. Military aggression crushed red-shirt protests in clashes that killed about 90 people in April and may of last year.
Seth Mydans reported Bangkok and Thomas Fuller of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Poypiti Amatatham has contributed reports from Chiang Mai.
