Thai election offers chance to break through reform logjam

Machinations to preserve prerogatives of old order will only bring more decay

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Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on the campaign trail in Bangkok on April 20: His United Thai Nation Party is trailing in the polls. (Photo by Kenya Akama)

Thitinan Pongsudhirak is a professor with Chulalongkorn University's political science faculty and a senior fellow at its Institute of Security and International Studies.

Thailand's upcoming election will be its most consequential poll ever in terms of determining the country's political future.

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