Thai vote: democratic backslide?
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A strong economy is expected to hand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra a solid majority Sunday.
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Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed, exiled and allegedly corrupt, was poised for a comeback-by-proxy as his loyalists looked likely to win Thailand's national election Sunday.
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BANGKOK, Dec. 23 -- Loyalists of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra won nearly half the seats in Thailand's parliamentary elections Sunday in a striking rebuke to the generals who forced the billionaire populist from power in 2006.
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People in Thailand take part in the first general election since last year's coup which ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra.
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US Presidential election watchers gather a downtown Bangkok, Thailand, hotel Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004, to view results. President George W. Bush and challenger US Sen. John Kerry were locked in a tight race as votes were counted across America.
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Conventional wisdom held that the Democrats elected to the Senate last year would largely be moderates, trying to tailor their votes in Washington to appeal to as broad a group of voters as possible to secure their seats. If so, that must mean opposing President BushÃ¢ÂÂs agenda is an increasingly moderate proposition.
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Thailand's Democrat Party is acquitted of charges of electoral fraud, which had threatened its dissolution.
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Slowly but -- it seems -- surely, the party backing ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is shaping up to be Thailand's next government, a stunning reversal of fortune since last year's military coup.
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A victory by a Thai opposition candidate in the race for Bangkok governor is a blow to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his party ahead of national polls early next year, analysts said.
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Indonesians cast their ballots today in the country&#39;s first democratic presidential election. The vote will cap months of polls and finally consign decades of dictatorship to history.
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra claimed victory in Sunday's elections in what appeared to be a  decisive mandate for a second term, propelled by strong support from Thailand's rural poor and his adroit handling of the tsunami disaster.
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Thailand's roller-coaster politics of the past year and a half, which saw a popular civilian government toppled by a military coup, heads for another treacherous turn Wednesday, when a court considers whether to disband the country's two largest parties.
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By Nopporn Wong-Anan BANGKOK  - Thai judges acquitted the Democrat Party on Wednesday of all charges of breaking election laws that could have seen it disbanded and their leaders banned from politics.
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Thailand's post-coup national election could be pushed back until early 2008 as legal experts fear a new constitution and other laws will not be finished as planned, army chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin said on Sunday.
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Thailand's military looks set to loom   large over an interim civilian government despite pledging it   would step back two weeks after ousting Prime Minister Thaksin   Shinawatra in a bloodless coup.
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Early returns from Indonesia&#39;s presidential election suggest former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has taken the lead against incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri.
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For Democrats nationally, Tuesday&#39;s election returns were a bitter pill. For Southern Democrats, they were pure poison. Five previously Democratic Senate seats were up for grabs.