There are about 52 million eligible voters in this election, and Thailand’s election commission has said it expects 80 per cent of them to cast their ballots. In the 2019 election, 74.69 per cent of the electorate cast their votes.
Ms Sariya Kanrayanamit, a voter in Bangkok, was upbeat about the changes that will come from this election.
“I think a lot of people will come out to vote this time round, because we want to give Thailand a new future,” the 50-year-old accountant told the Straits Times after she had cast her ballot at a school in the capital’s Watthana district. “I’m excited about the leader who’s going to emerge from this.”
Sunday’s poll is held under new rules where voters will cast two ballots – one for their choice of constituency candidate and one for the political party they wish to support. This system favours parties with deep grassroots support like Pheu Thai.
Although Pheu Thai’s two previous iterations were dissolved over electoral fraud, it has wielded a commanding lead in opinion polls among a populace struggling with household debt and the slower than expected recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Pheu Thai has pitched its experience in economic rescues, dating back to the days when the government under its predecessor Thai Rak Thai party steered the kingdom to recovery after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998.
To install a prime minister, however, requires a party to win more than a simple majority in the 500-seat Lower House. Under a system erected during junta rule before 2019, an appointed 250-seat Senate gets to vote alongside 500 elected representatives on who gets to become premier.
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2023-05-14 01:00:00Z
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