Thailand elections: Polls open with Thaksin’s daughter as frontrunner
Voting begins with Paetongtarn Shinawatra promising an end to conservative, military-backed rule. …
“And the change is really not about having another coup. Because that’s a change backwards. It’s about reforming the military, the monarchy, for a democratic future, with better economic performance,” says Thitinan Pongsudhirak, from the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University.