{"id":37229,"date":"2019-03-25T06:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37229"},"modified":"2019-03-25T06:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:22:20","slug":"pro-military-party-pulls-ahead-in-thailands-first-post-coup-elections-but-confusion-reigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37229","title":{"rendered":"Pro-military party pulls ahead in Thailand&#8217;s first post-coup elections but confusion reigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)<\/cite>A <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/01\/19\/asia\/thailand-election-prayut-military-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">pro-military party<\/a> that wants junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha to remain in power has taken a slight lead in Thailand&#8217;s elections on Sunday, according to early results from the country&#8217;s Election Commission, in what could be a blow to pro-democracy forces fighting to overcome authoritarian military rule. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">With 94% of the votes counted Sunday night, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/01\/19\/asia\/thailand-election-prayut-military-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">pro-military<\/a> Palang Pracharat Party inched ahead with 7.69 million votes, while the main opposition Pheu Thai Party, which is aligned with ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, receiving 7.2 million votes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Thaksin, or leaders connected to him, have previously won every election since 2001. The poor showing in Monday&#8217;s early poll results could signal a desire from the electorate to move away from the heavily polarized politics of the past. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)A pro-military party that wants junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha to remain in power has taken a slight lead in Thailand&#8217;s elections on Sunday, according to early results from the country&#8217;s Election Commission, in what could be a blow to pro-democracy forces fighting to overcome authoritarian military rule. With 94% of the votes counted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}