<span style="color: #222222;">In Thailand, the Election Commission today announced the final results of the March 24th general election that gave no party an absolute majority. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Commission distributed 150 party-list seats in the 500-member House of Representatives under a complicated formula related to each party's nationwide popular vote total. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Twenty-six parties were granted seats, 14 of them one apiece, while one seat was held open pending a re-vote in one constituency where the winning candidate was disqualified.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Palang Pracharath was awarded 18 party list seats today, while the rival Pheu Thai party associated with former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra received none.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Neither party received a majority, and both are attempting to put together coalitions with smaller parties to form a government.The Future Forward Party, which shares Pheu Thai's anti-military stance, has agreed to join it in a coalition and ranks third in seats. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Thailand has been under military rule since 2014, when the military ousted a government led by Pheu Thai. </span><br />''  <br />