BANGKOK, Aug 6 — Outgoing Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was reelected as leader of the Democrat Party, the main opposition party, at a special session of the party’s General Assembly on Saturday morning.

At the party’s General Assembly held at the Miracle Grand Hotel to elect a new party leader and 18 members of the executive board of director, Marut Bunnag, a party advisor, had nominated Mr Abhisit as party leader, with no one else nominated as a candidate to contest for the leadership.

Mr Abhisit was supported, in secret ballot voting, by 96.30 percent of 330 party voters.

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