boonpracong is a political analyst and former national security adviser to the then-prime minister yingluck shinawatra warm welcome to you. parit, first of all, congratulations on your win. it has sent shockwaves through thailand. how are you feeling about it? guest: thank you very much. the election results were beyond our internal expectations. what it demonstrates is a clear demand for change that thai people want to see. if you look beyond just the results of move forward party, you will realize that there are only two parties that were able to get more than 100 seats. only two parties got support from more than 10 million voters, the move forward party and the pheu thai party, both of which were on the opposition side of the political spectrum over the past four years. i think it demonstrates a clear demand for change from the thai people. we are trying to push forming a government that can push reforms across critical, economic and social issues. laura: we will look at how easy, or difficult, that will be in a moment. sean, for the first time -- put tightly have come second in this election but

expected to be thailand's most closely contested election since the military deposed her aunt, yingluck shinawatraw to virot ali, associate dean of international affairs at bangkok's thammasat university. as we heard there, there is a lot at stake in this election. can you walk us through the top parties in this election and what they represent? indeed. in this particular _ what they represent? indeed. in this particular election, - what they represent? indeed. in this particular election, we - this particular election, we have what we call — you could say two big groups. the first one is the military backed parties, which are in the coalition at the moment. you have parties like the party led by prayuth chan—ocha, and another led by another general, and then you have the democrat party, pheu thai, and so on. this is what we call the conservative group for the military backed government. on the other hand we have the opposition, which now they call themselves the liberal democratic alliances, which includes the move forward party, the pheu thai party, and a few other similar parties and so on, and