I wasn’t aware of this dynamic until today.
I would think it would be far better to work on a coalition government with Buddhists than with communists.
It’s not as if the great Buddha didn’t say many of the same things about the way to treat your fellow man as did Jesus.
Your average Buddhist is not really that hard to get along with.
Similar thing in China before 1949. The ruling Kuomintang party was dominated by American-educated Methodists ruling a predominantly Buddhist/Confucist country.