Thai election: a political laundering by the junta to earn legitimacy

With almost one and a half months since Thailand’s general election on March 24, Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha, leader of the military junta that usurped power from Yingluck Shinawatra’s government in 2014, seems a step closer to serving another term.On the May 7 and 8, the Election Commission (EC) certified 95 per cent of the election results on constituency MPs and party-list MPs respectively. The remaining 5 per cent will be tabulated when the cases involving possible…