The Tuesday evening shooting came a day after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolved the lower house of Parliament to hold early elections on July 3.
A front man for the Puea Thai Party said Wednesday that a gunman on a
cycle of violence shot parliamentarian Pracha Prasobdee as he drove his car. He survived and was hospitalized.The elections will be a battle between supporters of Abhisit and those of former leader Thaksin Shinawatra. The Puea Thai Party is pro-Thaksin.
Thailand has been in political turmoil since Thaksin's ouster in a 2006 military coup.