While analysts expect voting on Sunday to be an orderly affair, uncertainty clouds the post-election period. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK/NONTHABURI – Less than two weeks after giving birth, Ms Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the scion of one of Thailand’s most politically powerful families, bounded up the campaign stage on Friday to rally support for her Pheu Thai Party, the front runner in Sunday’s election.
“We have been ousted twice,” she said, in reference to the military coup in 2014 that ousted the Pheu Thai government and the one in 2006 which threw out the administration run by the Thai Rak Thai party, its predecessor.people, and appealed again for voters to give it a big majority to surmount a parliamentary system skewed in favour of military-linked parties.
The conservative UTN has urged Thailand’s electorate of 52 million to protect the monarchy and existing social order, which some claim are beingLed by 42-year-old Pita Limjaroenrat, MFP wants to end military conscription, amend the country’s lese majeste law, and dismantle the oligarchies that dominate the Thai economy.
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