The cheers from the crowd were irrepressible at a large Pheu Thai Party rally in Chiang Mai in the final days of Thailand’s general election campaign, just as polls widely indicate the largest opposition party’s candidate for prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, is poised to potentially unseat the incumbent former army chief.
It would be a triumphant return for the country’s most famous political family, after Paetongtarn’s exiled father Thaksin was ousted from power in a coup d’etat in 2006.
His various political parties have won the most seats in every Thai election since 2001, but those wins were either quashed by the
