BANGKOK (Reuters) – Slowly but it seems surely, the party backing ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is shaping up to form Thailand‘s next government, a stunning reversal of fortune after last year’s military coup.

Nobody doubted that the People Power Party (PPP), the reincarnation of Thaksin’s disbanded Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais) political juggernaut, would come first in Sunday’s election.
But after a 15-month army-led campaign to discredit Thaksin and his five years in office, few thought they would come within just eight seats of an outright majority in the 480-member parliament.

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