Thai election underway smoothly with Opposition favoured to top polls

Pheu Thai Party’s prime ministerial candidate Paetongtarn Shinawatra casts her ballot at a polling station during Thailand’s general election in Bangkok on Sunday, May 14, 2023. - AFP

BANGKOK, May 14 (AP): Voters in Thailand were heading to the polls on Sunday in an election touted as a pivotal chance for change, eight years after incumbent Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha first came to power in a 2014 coup. He is now running against the daughter of the politician who is the military's top nemesis.

The opposition Pheu Thai Party, headed by Paetongtarn Shinawatra, is widely predicted to win at least a healthy plurality of the seats in the 500-member lower House.