BANGKOK: Thai voters head to the polls on Sunday (Mar 24) in a long-delayed election following a 2014 coup, in a race that pits a military junta ...
Pro-Thaksin parties have won every election since 2001, but the past 15 years have seen crippling street protests that destabilised the government and hamstrung business.Military leader Prayuth's party campaigned on maintaining order and upholding traditional values of loyalty and devotion to the monarch.
Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha casts his ballot to vote in the general election at a polling station in Bangkok, Thailand, March 24, 2019. REUTERS/Athit PerawongmethaThe anti-Thaksin Yellow Shirts, mostly middle class and urban royalists who accuse his parties of corruption, have repeatedly taken to the streets, prompting the military to launch two coups in a decade.
"I think it's going to take a long time," said Paul Chambers, lecturer in political science at Naresuan University in northern Thailand.
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