{"id":75554,"date":"2025-12-12T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/12\/thailand-set-for-early-elections-cambodia-clashes"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:51:59","slug":"thailand-set-for-early-elections-amid-political-deadlock-and-cambodia-skirmishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75554","title":{"rendered":"Thailand set for early elections amid political deadlock and Cambodia skirmishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move follows a disagreement with the largest grouping in parliament, with elections to be held within 45-60 days<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, announced on Thursday that he is \u201creturning power to the people\u201d, moving to dissolve parliament and clear the way for elections earlier than previously anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Government spokesperson Siripong Angkasakulkiat said the move followed a disagreement with the largest grouping in parliament, the opposition People\u2019s party. \u201cThis happened because we can\u2019t go forward in parliament,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/12\/thailand-set-for-early-elections-cambodia-clashes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move follows a disagreement with the largest grouping in parliament, with elections to be held within 45-60 daysThailand\u2019s prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, announced on Thursday that he is \u201creturning power to the people\u201d, moving to dissolve parliam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75554","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75555,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75554\/revisions\/75555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}