After two days of debate, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will remain in office as parliament voted 319 to 162 against the no-confidence motion.

Of the 322 MPs from 11 parties in the government coalition, 312 voted against the motion.  4 of the Democrat Party’s 25 MPs abstained from voting: Jurin Laksanawisit, Chuan Leekpai, Banyat Bantadtan, and Sanphet Boonyamanee. 3 other MPs did not present themselves for voting.

House Speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha and Deputy Speakers Pichet Chuamuangphan and Paradorn Prissananantakul also abstained from voting, as per usual parliamentary practice.

Meanwhile, 7 opposition MPs joined the government coalition in voting against the motion: Phalang Pracharat MP Kanchana Changwa; Thai Sang Thai’s Rampoon Tantiwanitchanon, Tanthasit, Supaporn Salapsri, Rang Thurapol, and Adisak Kaewmongkolsap; and Chaiyamparwaan Manpianjit, who joined the Thai Progress Party after the Move Forward Party expelled him in 2023 over allegations of sexual harassment against his own assistants.

Chaiyamparwaan is also facing criminal charges after he was accused of sexually assaulting a Taiwanese tourist in Chiang Mai in January 2025. He told Matichon Online, however, that he voted against the motion because the Prime Minister helped save children from his constituency from being forced to work for call center scams. He insisted that he made his decision on his own and that he is not leveraging his vote to negotiate for interference in the sexual assault case against him.

Thai Sang Thai Party leader Sudarat Keyuraphan, on the other hand, wrote that the five MPs who voted to keep Paetongtarn in office has betrayed the party and were acting unethically for their own benefit, and they will be punished for a breach of ethics.

141 out of 143 MPs from the People’s Party voted in favour of the no-confidence motion. The remaining two MPs were not present for the vote: Wanvipa Maison and Sirin Sangaunsin, both of whom have posted on their social media accounts that they were unable to attend the voting session because they were hospitalized.

20 Phalang Pracharat MPs and 1 Fair Party MP are also voted in favour of the motion.

The vote came after two days of debate, during which the opposition grilled Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra over her lack of leadership, her administration’s failure to improve the economy and implement reform, ongoing prosecution of pro-democracy activists, and the influence of Paetongtarn’s father, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, over her and her administration.