Thai junta says 'right conditions' needed before polls


  • World
  • Thursday, 29 May 2014

Thai Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha (C) addresses reporters at the Royal Thai Army Headquarters in Bangkok May 26, 2014. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military rulers held out little hope for early elections on Thursday, a week after the army seized power, saying conditions had to be right and divisions healed before there could be a return to civilian rule.

Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha ousted the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on May 22 to end months of protests that had depressed Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy and raised fears of enduring chaos.

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