True to their words, Thailand's People's Power Party renominated Samak Sundaravej for the Prime Minister post after the court kicked him out for violating the country's Constitution by accepting payment for appearing in a cooking show he had hosted for seven years before becoming prime minister.

Whether or not he'll be voted in is another matter. According to the BBC, the PPP doesn't have the necessary majority to reinstate Samak as PM and must rely on the support of the other parties, something the PPP doesn't have.

Samak is pretty unpopular at the moment, with protesters taking to the streets and overtaking government buildings in Thailand trying to get him to resign. He is accused of being a puppet of his predecessor, the disposed former PM Thaksin Shinawatra.

Update 9/12/2008:
The PPP will no longer push to have Samak renominated after failing to get coalition partners and some PPP members to go along.