{"id":55102,"date":"2023-05-14T09:26:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T00:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/14\/thailand-election-day-arrives-with-hope-of-unseating-junta-generals-from-power"},"modified":"2023-05-14T09:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T00:26:32","slug":"thailand-election-day-arrives-with-hope-of-unseating-junta-generals-from-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55102","title":{"rendered":"Thailand election day arrives with hope of unseating junta generals from power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young voters demand change but military-appointed senate poses hurdle to a non-establishment candidate becoming prime minister<\/p>\n<p>Thais are voting on Sunday in an election that could lead to the defeat of the military-backed leader who has ruled Thailand for almost a decade.<\/p>\n<p>However, a skewed election system means the shape of the new government is \u201cvery unpredictable\u201d, say analysts, and it is not clear if pro-democracy candidates will succeed in unseating the generals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/14\/thailand-election-day-arrives-with-hope-of-unseating-junta-generals-from-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young voters demand change but military-appointed senate poses hurdle to a non-establishment candidate becoming prime ministerThais are voting on Sunday in an election that could lead to the defeat of the military-backed leader who has ruled Thailand f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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-55102","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\/55102","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55118,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55102\/revisions\/55118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}