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The fundamental risk in Thailand's election this Sunday is that ruling incumbents, spearheaded by coup-maker-cum-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and underpinned by the powers-that-be, are headed for a big loss. Yet they are unlikely to go away without distortion, subversion, and confrontation, as has been the case in the recent past. Unless the poll results are clear and unassailable, it is likely that more funny business will be put in motion after the election.
Bangkok, May 9 (EFE).- Giving away cryptocurrency to millions of people, freezing farmers’ debt or legalizing sex toys are examples of the long list of populist measures proposed by Thailand’s political parties ahead of Sunday’s general elections. “These elections already have a winner: populism,” Thitinan Pongsudhirak, dean of Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science, said …