BANGKOK (AP) — Thai lawmakers met to select a new prime minister Friday as major parties made competing promises to soon dissolve Parliament and call an election as a way to resolve the country’s political crisis.

Only five candidates, nominated during the last general election in 2023, are eligible under Thailand’s constitutional rules. Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the Bhumjaithai Party, seemed the most likely candidate to secure the job.

The Constitutional Court last week dismissed Paetongtarn Shinawatra as prime minister for breaching ethics laws in a phone call with Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen about tensions over competing claims along their border.

The dispute erupted into a deadly five-day armed conflict in July .

Anutin and Pheu Thai Party candidate Chaikasem Nitisiri

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