Election posters in Bangkok - the vote presents Thailand with a big choice about its future

 

By Jonathan Head

South East Asia correspondent

For the past few weeks an irresistibly catchy tune has been playing in neighbourhoods across Thailand, from campaign trucks sent out by the Pheu Thai party, the frontrunner in this Sunday's general election.

 

"A landslide for Pheu Thai, in all areas, so the lives of the people can be better," it goes, urging voters to give it a thumping victory.

 

That Pheu Thai (For Thais) is so far ahead of all its rivals is remarkable. This is despite all the efforts made over the past 17 years to weaken it, and to eliminate the influence of Thaksin Shinawatra, the telecoms billionaire who founded its first incarnation, Thai Rak Thai, in 1998.

 

Full story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65531574

 

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Sunday will be truth day, but will the truth be told?

Guessing there is going to be quite a few rabid Thaksin haters absent from this thread.????

I rarely agree with dear Hillary, but she was spot on when she called the bribed ,brainwashed ,undereducatrd masses that vote for a corrupt, power-hungry billionaire grifter the deplorables. You got the orange clown in the US of A.....les, and the cannot let go square face in LOS.I alone can fix it is the motto of both of these wannabe autocrats. The third coming of the redeemer. Amen.