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    Keesing's Record of World Events (formerly Keesing's Contemporary Archives),
    Volume 52, April, 2006 Thailand, Page 47200
    © 1931-2006 Keesing's Worldwide, LLC - All Rights Reserved.

    Apr 2006 - Legislative elections - Fall of Thaksin

    Elections were held on April 2 to the 500 member House of Representatives (the lower house of the bicameral legislature) despite a boycott by the main opposition parties. These were followed on April 19, despite a mounting challenge to the legitimacy of the exercise, by elections to the Senate (the upper house). The polls took place barely over a year after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai ( TRT— Thais Love Thais) had secured a second term with a landslide victory in February 2005, gaining over 60 per cent of the vote [see pp. 46471-72].

    The snap elections had been called by Thaksin to give his government a renewed mandate in the face of months of mounting political protests and accusations of corruption, but the absence of the opposition, a high level of abstention by voters, and allegations of electoral malpractice combined to impart a chaotic, dubious, and even farcical aspect to the elections, ...

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