* #WORLD_NEWS * Polling has now ended in Thailand in a general election boycotted by the opposition and disrupted by protests. Anti-government activists forced some polling stations in Bangkok and the south to close but a large majority elsewhere were said to be peaceful. PM Yingluck Shinawatra called the vote to head off weeks of mass protests aimed at forcing her to resign. Her party is widely expected to win but legal challenges and a lack of a quorum of MPs may create a political limbo. Ms Yingluck, who won the last election in 2011, voted soon after polls opened on Sunday near her Bangkok home. Her opponents took to the streets in November after her government tried to pass an amnesty law that would potentially have allowed her brother, Thaksin, to return from exile. Thaksin, a former prime minister who fled during a court case in 2008, is reviled by the protesters, who say he controls the government from abroad.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 09:40:04 +0000
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