The Chart Thai and Samakkhi Tham Parties.
somboon's resignation from the leadership of Chart Thai after losing face in not being nominated for the prime ministership, left a vacancy. The Chart Thai leaders blithely assumed that Chatichai would take back the reigns, despite having been virtually forced out of the position by them after the coup Instead, Chatichai rejected the party and went off to form a new one. Pramarn Adireksarn then resumed the leadership which he had relinquished in 1986 to Chatichai, his brother in law. He had been the founding leader of the party in 1973. But Pramarn still was on the list of "unusually wealthy" and even worse, the party's main financial backer, Banharn, was regarded as one of those who master-minded Suchinda's appointment.