party took ninety six seats while one hundred and sixty three seats appeared to have gone to the poirot thai party and has links to oust the prime minister talks in. let's bring in d w correspondent he joins us from bangkok bust the exit polls indicate a victory of the opposition party where does that leave the country. well it depends on the call if they get enough seats to form a coalition to elect the prime minister and that seems rather unlikely at the moment. as you can see behind me the votes are being counted right now in these minutes and we expect preliminary results within the next few hours we have these exit polls now we have to be careful with that because we don't really know how reliable they are the electoral system is extremely complicated in thailand and so that all of these preliminary or not preliminary results but exit polls of course are subject to change but if they turn out to be true and if the poor thai party is the strongest force in the new parliament but they don't have the majority to elect the next prime minister that would mean there could be a political gridlock be