The election will again pit the billionaire Shinawatra family against parties backed by the royalist military and old money conservatives, in what has been a bitter, 18-year power struggle in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy.
BANGKOK, Thailand – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Friday, March 17, he had prepared a decree seeking to dissolve parliament, an expected step as his government heads into the last week of its four-year term.
“I have prepared [the decree], we have to wait. We have to wait for the announcement in the Royal Gazette,” Prayuth told reporters in the northern city of Chiang Mai.
Speaking on Friday at an event to introduce Pheu Thai’s candidates, she said she was confident of winning the election by a landslide, with the aim of averting any political maneuvering against her party.
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