Thai February Polls Likely to End in Political Anticlimax

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Thai February Polls Likely to End in Political Anticlimax

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"Thailand’s 53 million eligible voters are set to go to the polls on February 8 to decide their third general election since 2019, and to vote on a referendum to write a new 20th Constitution (amid 12 successful military coups and seven to nine failed ones) since the 1932 revolution that ended the absolute monarchy. The election reflects a seemingly unending cycle of political instability in which military coups have led to the abrogation of existing charters and the drafting of new ones, with civilian forces allowed to rule until conservative royalist forces have once again uprooted them. .."

https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/thailand ... anticlimax
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