Thailand's interim Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongphaisan speaks during a news conference at the Permanent Secretary of Defence in Bangkok May 14, 2014. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai general election is unlikely to go ahead in July after renewed unrest, officials said on Thursday, as the acting prime minister was forced by protesters to flee a meeting with electoral officers and gunmen killed three people in Bangkok.
The turmoil comes as a government loyal to ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra squares off with opponents backed by the royalist establishment over who should be prime minister in the latest phase of nearly a decade of rivalry.
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