Historical moment: Thailand is heading to the polls today for the first time, since 2014’s military coup. — PHOTOS: ABS-CBN/TEAM CERITALAH
THIS weekend will kick off Asia’s 2019 election season. For the next two months, 1.2 billion Asians will head to the polls, starting with Thailand (52 million voters) on March 24, then India (900 million), Indonesia (193 million) and the Philippines (64 million).
That’s a lot of voters! But, as usual, its likely that few people outside the region – especially the Europeans and Americans – will be paying any attention. That’s their loss. What happens in the East often reverberates in the West: the Philippines was the epicentre of the electoral earthquake that was later to ripple across Britain and the United States.
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