The Election Commission expects 80 per cent of the 52 million eligible voters to cast their ballot. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK – In makeshift tents sealed off by blue tarpaulin and yellow barrier tape, election staff kept watch on the alarm clocks placed by the clear plastic ballot boxes at their polling stations. At the stroke of 8am, they swung into action, admitting the early birds that had already queued up to cast their vote.took place after weeks of intense campaigning that has largely pitted conservative military-backed factions against a party that has won every single election in the last two decades.
Over in the southern province of Chumpon, a couple arrived at a polling station in full wedding attire after completing their morning nuptial ceremony, Thai PBS news outlet reported. Pheu Thai’s key prime minister candidate Srettha Thavisin cast his vote in Bangkok’s Klongtoey district shortly after 8am. He told reporters that he will spend the rest of the day meeting friends and seeing a doctor before regrouping at Pheu Thai’s headquarters in Bangkok in the evening.Amid fears of attempts to skew election results, some voters tried to make a statement.
“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. “I’m excited about the leader who’s going to emerge from this.”Ms Nontaporn Ounprasertsuk 30, a bank worker who voted in Bangkok’s Phaya Thai district, said she woke up early to take her family to the polling station.
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