Seven small political parties have pitched a new formula for a national unity government in a bid to break the current political impasse.
Representatives from the Thai Network Party, Land of Dharma Party, Thai Dee Power Party, Palang Pandinthong Party, Paradonraphab Party, the Green Party and the Thai Population Party on Monday turned up at the Election Commission (EC) to propose the idea for a national unity government they called "the government of national unity creation".
According to the group, it remains unclear who will be able to form a coalition government even though the general election was held almost a month ago.
The other forms of unity government so far suggested, would run afoul of the constitution as there would be no opposition parties, they said.
According to them, a government of national unity creation would be a solution to this problem.
"Any parties wishing to join the government should sign their names together," one of the representatives said.
This government, therefore, would be legitimate and in line with the charter, according to the group.
They also proposed asking the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to forward the list of senator candidates screened by a selection committee to His Majesty the King to decide the final 250.
The shortlist of 400 was said to have been sent to the NCPO last month.
According to the group, senators selected by the King would be impartial when voting for a prime minister.
They also put forward a new formula to calculate party-list MPs in a bid to address another hotly debated topic.
According to them, Pheu Thai is expected to end up with 137 constituency MPs, 26 more than the number it is supposed to have under the mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation system.
To calculate party-list MPs, 7.9 million votes for Pheu Thai, therefore, should be omitted, leaving only 27,612,017 votes subject to the calculation.
Divided by 363 MPs (500 MPs minus 137 from Pheu Thai), the votes each party would require to obtain a party-list MP would be 76,066.
With this calculation, 15 parties would be bound to get at least one MP and they would have a total of 478 MPs.
The remaining 22 party-list MPs would be allocated to parties placing Nos.16-37.
They said this formula would result in 37 parties making up the 500 MPs, which would be in line with the constitution.