Bangkok election could herald new chapter in turbulent Thai politics

BANGKOK (Reuters) - For years, Thailand's turbulent and sometimes violent politics have had a familiar narrative: the poor in the country's rural northern and eastern regions at polarising odds with the royalist establishment in the bright lights of Bangkok.

That looks set to change in an election on Sunday which for the first time in nearly a decade could drive the middle-class establishment party, the Democrats, out of power in Bangkok and usher in a party favoured by the working poor.