Voting begins with Paetongtarn Shinawatra promising an end to conservative, military-backed rule.
South East Asia correspondent
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the army general who led the last coup in 2014, is seeking another term.Leading the race is Pheu Thai , led by Mr Thaksin's daughter, Paetongtarn Shinawatra. The 36-year-old is harnessing her father's wide patronage network while sticking to the populist message that has resonated with rural, low-income regions of the country.Mr Thaksin, a telecommunications billionaire, is loved by many lower income Thais but is deeply unpopular with the royalist elite.
"And the change is really not about having another coup. Because that's a change backwards. It's about reforming the military, the monarchy, for a democratic future, with better economic performance," says Thitinan Pongsudhirak, from the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University.
The following year a controversial court ruling dissolved Future Forward, the previous iteration of Move Forward, which had performed strongly in the election thanks to the passionate support of younger voters. That sparked off mass protests lasting 6 months which called for reform of the military and the monarchy.
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