BANGKOK (Reuters) - A resounding opposition election victory could represent a rejection of Thailand's old political order, signalling stability in the short term, but no lasting truce in a long-running battle for power.
Self-exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been dealt a favourable hand with the Puea Thai Party's landslide win, which put his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, on the brink of the premiership and closed all loopholes for immediate intervention by his opponents in the establishment and military.
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