FILE PHOTO: An art installation shows a dummy depicting Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha next to a ballot box during an exhibition of Thai street artist Headache Stencil in at WTF gallery in Bangkok, Thailand March 12, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
BANGKOK (Reuters) - When Thai voters go to polls on March 24 in the first elections since a military coup, there will be at least three parties on the ballot openly campaigning to keep the military in power through democracy.
At a recent rally of the pro-army Palang Pracharat party, a speaker laid out the case for electing junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha, who seized power from an elected government when he was army chief in 2014 in the second coup in a decade.
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