THAILAND : Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra walks with Thai Election Commission (EC) Chairman Supachai Somcharoen (L) during the meeting to discuss a future election at the Thai Air Force Academy in Bangkok Wednesday---AFP BANGKOK, Apr 30 (AFP): Thailand Wednesday set new elections for July 20 to try to end a deadly six-month political crisis, even as legal challenges threaten to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra out of office.
The nation, riven by years of political unrest, has been without a properly functioning government since December, causing policy paralysis that has sapped the strength of its once-buoyant economy.
Yingluck is pinning her hopes on re-election to shore up her legitimacy following months of mass street protests seeking her resignation to make way for an unelected "neutral" prime minister to implement anti-corruption reforms.
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