It has been postponed and postponed. But on Wednesday wrote the statement by thai king Maha Vaajiralongkorn under a decree, which announces the general elections in Thailand, march 24. It will be the first election since millitären took over power in the country in 2014.
Tillkännagörandet will, after several weeks of protests in Thailand against the junta repeatedly has delayed the date for when elections should be held.
in eight years. Then won the party Pheu Thai and Yingluck Shinawatra became prime minister. Shinawatra now lives in exile, but the party Pheu Thai is still believed to have great support.
There are also expectations that the current self-proclaimed prime minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, a former general in the flytvapnet, set up in the election. No matter how it goes, the new constitution that was adopted under the military junta that the military continued influence over the country.
the right to nominate who sits in parliament’s upper house, and, indirectly thereby, also the influence over who becomes prime minister.
