{"id":53603,"date":"2023-03-20T18:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T09:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/thailand-paetongtarn-shinawatra-leads-polls-election"},"modified":"2023-03-20T18:05:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T09:05:45","slug":"thailand-paetongtarn-shinawatra-leads-polls-as-country-heads-towards-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53603","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: Paetongtarn Shinawatra leads polls as country heads towards election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As parliament dissolves, party of Paetongtarn, whose father was deposed in 2006, has best chance of forming majority<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s parliament has been dissolved, paving the way for an election in May that will pit military-linked candidates against the daughter of the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.<\/p>\n<p>King Maha Vajiralongkorn has endorsed a decree to dissolve parliament, according to an announcement in the Royal Gazette on Monday. An election must be held between 45 and 60 days after the house\u2019s dissolution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/thailand-paetongtarn-shinawatra-leads-polls-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As parliament dissolves, party of Paetongtarn, whose father was deposed in 2006, has best chance of forming majorityThailand\u2019s parliament has been dissolved, paving the way for an election in May that will pit military-linked candidates against the dau&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93,2873,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-thaksin-shinawatra","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53604,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603\/revisions\/53604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}