Thailand's People's Party delays announcing prime minister pick

Lower house's largest party still deciding whether to back Pheu Thai or Bhumjaithai

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Chaikasem Nitisiri, the Pheu Thai Party's prime ministerial candidate, arrives at party headquarters on Sept. 2 as rival political camps vie to form the next government in the wake of the Constitutional Court's removal of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office. © Reuters

YUICHI NITTA

BANGKOK -- Thailand's political limbo has been prolonged after the opposition People's Party, the largest in the lower house of parliament, said it will make a final decision on which of two rival camps to back in the prime minister election at its executive committee meeting on Wednesday.

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