{"id":30915,"date":"2023-03-20T05:57:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T05:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30915"},"modified":"2023-03-20T06:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T06:01:12","slug":"thai-pm-slips-in-opinion-poll-rival-pulls-ahead-as-election-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30915","title":{"rendered":"Thai PM slips in opinion poll, rival pulls ahead as election looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reuters: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BANGKOK, March 20 – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is falling further behind his main election rival, the daughter of popular billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, a new opinion poll showed, as the nation awaited the dissolution of parliament ahead of elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s support jumped 10 points to 38.2% in a survey conducted by the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) published at the weekend, while Prayuth trailed in third place with 15.65%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposition politician, Pita Limjaroenrat, who heads the Move Forward party, received support from 15.75% of respondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thailand is expected to hold an election<\/a> in May, which will continue a long-running political battle between the Shinawatra family and conservative pro-military establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paetongtarn, as leader of the main opposition Phue Thai party, has been campaigning across the country<\/a> with its candidates. Ung Ing, as she is known by her nickname, is the party’s nominee for prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters: BANGKOK, March 20 – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is falling further behind his main election rival, the daughter of popular billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, a new opinion poll showed, as the nation awaited the dissolution of parliament ahead of elections. Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s support jumped 10 points to 38.2% in a survey conducted by the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) published at the weekend, while Prayuth trailed in third place with 15.65%. Opposition politician, Pita Limjaroenrat, who heads the Move Forward party, received support from 15.75% of respondents. Thailand is expected to hold an election in May, which will… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30917,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30915\/revisions\/30917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}