Thailand’s main opposition party, Pheu Thai, picked acting head Viroj Pao-in as its leader ahead of a general election expected in 2019 after more than four years of military rule, The Bangkok Post reports. The party will decide later whether Viroj will be its candidate for prime minister in the national poll. The country’s election commission has threatened to dissolve Pheu Thai if an inquiry into a meeting of party members with former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in Hong Kong finds the party let a non-member or outsider interfere in its internal affairs. Thaksin has lived in self-imposed exile after being ousted in a 2006 coup. The military also toppled a civilian government led by Thaksin’s younger sister four years ago. In an interview with NHK, Thaksin says military rule could be coming to an end.