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BANGKOK, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Exit polls in Indonesia indicate Samak Sundaravej's Peoples Power Party will win a parliamentary majority and make him the new prime minister.
The party said by its estimate, it had secured at least 270 of the 480 seats in the lower house of parliament, CNN reported from Bangkok.
Samak told CNN once the results are confirmed, one of the first orders of business will be to pass an amnesty bill to allow former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return from exile in London. He fled 15 months ago in a bloodless military coup that also banned his Thais Love Thais party.
Thailand has undergone 18 coups in the past 75 years.
The apparent runner-up was Abhisit Vejjajiva's Democrat party, which won an estimated162 seats, the report said.
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