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Exiled PM’s daughter determined to ‘seize the reins’ in Thai elections

Back on the campaign trail just days after giving birth, Paetongtarn Shinawatra is confident of a landslide victory

The Guardian - UK

No exit from our democratic future

As Thailand's much-anticipated poll on May 14 heads into its homestretch, several clear trends and patterns are emerging to suggest that democratisation is making an inexorable comeback in this country, with positive implications for Southeast Asia and beyond. The immediate road ahead in Thai politics will likely still be bumpy,…

Bangkok Post

Daughter of ousted Thai prime minister could win his old job

Opinion polls show Paetongtarn Shinawatra to be the heavy favorite to take the prime minister's post after Thailand's May 14 general election

The Independent UK

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‘Time for a new way’: Thais look for change as election nears

Analysts warn failure to honour the outcome could leave the country weak, divided and at risk of crisis.

Al Jazeera

Thai PM candidate Paetongtarn to resume campaign after birth of child

One of Thailand's leading prime ministerial candidates Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Wednesday said she would next week resume campaigning after giving birth a few days ago, and remains confident of a landslide election win.

Reuters

Thailand: Back around in the circle again?

There have been occasional violent episodes in Thai politics and one recent massacre (2010), but the struggle for a genuine democracy has usually been relatively restrained. Maybe that is why it has lasted so long.

Bangkok Post

Thai PM candidate Paetongtarn Shinawatra gives birth two weeks before election

Paetongtarn, 36, is leading polls to become Thailand’s next prime minister, boosted by the popularity of the Shinawatra name

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Top candidate for Thai PM gives birth two weeks before elections

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, leader of the opposition Pheu Thai Party, announces the birth of a son on Instagram.

Al Jazeera

Thai PM candidate gives birth two weeks before election

Thailand's leading prime ministerial candidate, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, gave birth on Monday to a baby boy two weeks before elections in which she hopes to return to power the populist movement her father and aunt led before army coups ousted them.

Reuters

Who is Paetongtarn Shinawatra? The political scion aiming to become Thailand PM

Young member of the Shinawatra clan told supporters on Wednesday that coups had hurt everyone. She should know, her father was deposed in that way

The Guardian - AU

Populism triumphs as election looms

Although the campaign season for Thailand's much-anticipated election has only just begun, populism has already become the runaway winner. All of the contesting parties have come up with a plethora of populist pledges to woo voters. That populism has triumphed in Thai politics bears multiple longer-term implications.

Bangkok Post

Analysis-Some new faces but old divisions to haunt Thailand's May election

Thailand's general election set for May 14 will bring new faces into the fray but is likely to be over-shadowed by old animosity between the military-royalist establishment and popular opposition parties challenging the status quo.

Reuters

Myanmar’s democratic struggle at stake in Thailand’s election

Myanmar people in Thailand hope a new government in Bangkok will take a tougher line on the coup leaders in Naypyidaw.

Al Jazeera

Pheu Thai ups stakes in race

The Pheu Thai Party has recently revised its MP target, aiming to capture 310 House seats in the next polls — an ambitious scale-up from the 250 seats — and form a solid single-party government. The move is seen by academics as a major task and tactic to intensify the…

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Thailand's opposition party unveils policies and candidates

Thailand’s main opposition party has paraded its slate of parliamentary candidates and outlined its policy pledges in a well-choreographed show of confidence ahead of the general election

Reuters

Thai PM to dissolve parliament before term ends next month

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has "a date in mind" for when parliament will be dissolved, which he said will come before the government's term ends late next month.

Bangkok Post

Thailand's political charade exposed

On the face of it, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha for eight years, has touted himself as "an outsider" who was above the political fray, seizing power in a military coup and taking top office to help Thailand in its hour of need amid debilitating protests and polarisation in 2013-14. Now…

Reuters

Daughter of Thailand's exiled former PM Thaksin to seek premiership

The daughter of Thailand's self-exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra has declared her readiness to run for prime minister in an election this year, as the main opposition seeks to regain power after being ousted in a coup eight years ago.

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Yongyuth denies affair allegations

Former deputy Prime Minister and interior minister Yongyuth Wichaidit on Monday denied claims that he had an affair with a married woman before demanding the Pheu Thai Party dismiss famed lawyer Sitra Biabangkerd -- who made the allegations -- from its ranks.

Bangkok Post

Pheu Thai 'should probe' ex-DPM's alleged adultery

Pheu Thai should probe the allegation that a former deputy prime minister committed adultery as a well-known lawyer has vowed to speak on the matter on Monday, according to the party's deputy leader.

Bangkok Post

NACC rejects rice-pledge graft claims

Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck Shinawatra, and Yaowapa Wongsawat have all survived the National Anti-Corruption Commission's (NACC) consideration of petitions lodged against them in the second part of the rice-pledging scandal.

Bangkok Post

Party denies 'Tuhao' ties

The Pheu Thai Party and SC Asset Corporation have denied having any links to a Chinese criminal syndicate run by businessman and suspected crime boss Chaiyanat "Tuhao" Kornchayanant, saying foes are trying to ruin the reputation of the party and the company.

Bangkok Post

Yingluck slams court bid to have her nabbed

Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has cried foul over the issuance of an arrest warrant because she failed to show up for a trial in which she is accused of ordering the transfer of a senior official to justify installing a close relative as national police chief while she was…

Bangkok Post

Prayut remains PM, court rules tenure ends in 2025

The Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's tenure has not reached its eight-year limit under the current constitution and that his term started on April 6, 2017, when the present charter took effect.

Bangkok Post

Boonsong granted temporary release to attend mum's funeral

Former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom was granted temporary release from prison to attend his mother's funeral, Wuttichai Jenwiriyakul, director of the Klong Prem Central Prison, confirmed on Tuesday.

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