Singapore : Months of political uncertainty in Thailand sparked by the suspension and eventual ouster of the prime minister have come to a temporary pause after politicians on Friday voted in a new leader, the third to hold the office in a little more than a year.

Anutin Charnvirakul, the 58-year-old leader of the Bhumjaithai party, cobbled together an alliance of progressives and conservatives to beat out Chaikasem Nitisiri of the ruling Pheu Thai party. Pheu Thai is the political vehicle of Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was dismissed by court order last week , and her influential father and another former PM, Thaksin Shinawatra.

Anutin won 311 of a possible 492 votes, according to an unofficial tally broadcast on television. The veteran politician and his government are expected to ta

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