![]() ![]() The party has promised big changes, ranging from tackling business monopolies and ending military conscription to amending a strict law on royal insults that critics say is used to stifle dissent. ![]() Move Forward Party, another key opposition group, has seen a late-stage surge and is banking on young people - including 3.3 million eligible first-time voters aged 18 to 22. We will change from a dictatorship to a democratically elected government," Paetongtarn, 36, told thousands of supporters in her first rally after giving birth mid-campaign. Its candidates for prime minister include Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of family patriarch Thaksin Shinawatra, and real estate mogul Srettha Thavisin - both of whom have limited political experience. Opinion polls show the Pheu Thai is likely to win most seats, continuing its string of strong performances in every vote since 2001, including twice in landslides. will you miss me if I'm not here? Because I will miss all of you," he said, in an emotional plea, hoping to lead conservatives to victory over an opposition led by the populist Pheu Thai party, backed by the billionaire Shinawatra family.Ī fierce competition between pro-military, royalist conservatives and a brash, technocratic opposition has defined Thai politics for nearly 20 years, much of it in turmoil that has included bloody street clashes and two coups. "If we are not elected, I won't be standing here. We are Thailand, we are a family," said Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a former army chief who came to power with a 2014 coup and now leads the recently formed United Thai Nation party. BANGKOK, May 12 (Reuters) - Surrounded by adoring crowds packed inside stadiums and halls, the main prime ministerial candidates of Thailand's political parties made a final push to rally supporters on Friday, two days before a crunch general election.Īfter nearly a decade of a government led or backed by its royalist military, some 52 million eligible voters in Southeast Asia's second-largest economy will head to polling stations on Sunday. ![]()
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