Pheu Thai will nominate three quality candidates for the prime ministership at the promised general election next year, party leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Tuesday.
Ms Paetongtarn said the three nominees would be presented “when the time comes”, and they would not let the voters down.
“I am confident that the names will give people hope for the future,” the former prime minister said at an event to revamp the party in prepration for the coming polls.
“I would like to be a candidate. Sadly, I cannot,” she added.
Ms Paetongtarn was ousted from Government House by the Constitutional Court in August for serious ethical breaches in a leaked phone conversation with Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen in June, when tensions rose at the border.
The ruling effectively ended any chance of her returning to the premiership, but she remains Pheu Thai leader.
The party has given former transport minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit the responsibility of taking the party into the election.