Thailand: another round?

Politics in Thailand is a vicious circle, and while an election in that country on May 14 could produce a radical break with the past, it could also be just the start of the next trip round the circuit.

Yingluck Shinawatra, pictured in 2012, became prime minister of Thailand in 2011, but was removed from office and replaced by General Chan-ocha in 2014. She is now in exile, but the Shinawatra family is looking to lead the country for a third time, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office on Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 1, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—There have been occasional violent episodes in Thai politics and one recent massacre (2010), but the struggle for a genuine democracy has usually been relatively restrained. Maybe that is why it has lasted so long.

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