BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who served almost nine years in office after seizing power in a…

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FILE PHOTO-Incumbent Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha campaigns for re-election in Phuket, Thailand May 7, 2023.

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General Prayuth Chan-ocha, who spearheaded the 2014 coup, is running for reelection as prime minister.

Source: https://www.chiangraitimes.com/news/polling-stations-are-closing-across-thailand/

General Prayuth contested the May general election as prime ministerial candidate for a new conservative political party, but it performed poorly, winning just 36 out of 500 seats in parliament.

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Move Forward has a strong base among urban voters, including those who joined a youth-led protest movement that emerged in 2020 to challenged Prayuth.

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"Prayuth is seen as the ultimate conservative royalist leader loyal to the monarchy and unrivalled in his patriotism," said Prajak Kongkirati, a political scientist at Bangkok's Thammasat University.

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Prayuth was also on the campaign trail on Saturday in the southern Chumporn province, the first with his new party.

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Thailand has been ruled by its military leaders since 2014, when Prayuth Chan-ocha, then-army chief, overthrew Yingluck Shinawatra’s government in a coup.

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Thailand’s main opposition party took an early lead in a vote count from Sunday’s general election, touted as a pivotal chance for change nine years after incumbent prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha first came to power in a 2014 coup.

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The election could upset the status quo after more than eight years of a conservative pro-military government led by former army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha.

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The elections commission, whose members Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha had chosen, used a previously undisclosed calculation to award parliamentary seats to minor, pro-military parties shortly after the votes concluded in 2019.

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