Thailand's election this May will showcase the bitter rivalries at the heart of 17 years of on-and-off political tumult in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy.
BANGKOK, Thailand – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has gained ground on frontrunner Paetongtarn Shinawatra in a new survey on Thailand’s top choice for premier, which showed the former coup leader was the most popular choice in the capital Bangkok.
With an election due by May, the survey will be a boost for former army chief Prayuth, 68, who garnered less than half of the support of Paetongtarn, 36, in polls since September by the National Institute of Development Administration. Paetongtarn’s Pheu Thai party and its previous incarnations have won every election in the past two decades, drawing their main electoral strength from the populous, largely rural northeast of the country. But three of their governments have been removed from office, by military coups and court rulings.
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