BANGKOK—Thailand’s election winner moved quickly Monday to shore up her party’s already-resounding victory, forming a ruling coalition with four smaller parties and vowing to pursue national reconciliation after five years of instability and political violence over the military coup that ousted her brother.Yingluck Shinawatra, who will become Thailand’s first female prime minister, said her priority would be “how to lead the country to unity and reconciliation.”The 2006 military coup that ousted Thaksin Shinawatra sharply polarized Thai society, opening up a struggle between his supporters and opponents that culminated in protests and street battles that roiled Bangkok last year and took 90 lives as the army restored order.The military eased concerns of renewed turmoil Monday by declaring acceptance of the sweeping electoral win of Yingluck’s pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai Party.Defense Minister Gen. Prawit Wongsuwon said the army would accept a government led by 44-year-old Yingluck, and vowed the military would not stage a coup.”I’ve said this several times,” Prawit was quoted as saying by several Thai newspapers. “We are not going to interv …
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