Thais Vote as Polls Show Shift to Pro-Thaksin Party
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Thais will decide the outcome today of the latest round in a feud that has dominated the country’s politics for a decade and which polls say will be won by allies of Thaksin Shinawatra, the man at the center of the divide.
A clear majority in the 500-seat Parliament in today’s election for the pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai would see his sister Yingluck Shinawatra, who heads the party, become Thailand’s first female prime minister. It may also raise the prospect of a return by Thaksin, who was deposed in a 2006 coup and has been shaping Pheu Thai’s strategy from exile in Dubai.