Thailand's military eased concerns of renewed turmoil Monday by accepting the sweeping electoral win of toppled ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's party, while his sister vowed to reconcile the deeply divided nation as its first female prime minister, AP reported. Defense Minister Gen. Prawit Wongsuwon said the army would accept a government led by Thaksin's sister, 44-year-old Yingluck Shinawatra, and vowed the military would not stage a coup. «I've said this several times,» Prawit was quoted as saying by several Thai newspapers Monday. «We are not going to intervene.» Yingluck announced an agreement Monday to form a five-party coalition government. Her Pheu Thai party won a majority of 265 seats in the 500-seat lower house of parliament outright, according to preliminary results of Sunday's polling; Yingluck said the agreement with four minor parties would boost her coalition to 299 seats.
