Exit polls give Thai PM big win
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has won a landslide general election victory,  exit polls say.
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Thais voted Sunday in national elections expected to return Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to office with a huge mandate, his popularity buoyed by his hands-on reaction to the Dec. 26 tsunami disaster.
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Telecoms tycoon-turned Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was on his way to another four-year term Sunday in what an exit poll said would be a historic second successive landslide.
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Thailand's parliament on Monday chose a combative, right-wing politician and close ally of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra as the country's new prime minister
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Thais voted on Sunday in a post-coup general election that supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra sought to turn into a referendum on his return from exile.
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Thai politicians wrapped up their campaigns on Saturday on the eve of a general election unlikely to resolve deep divisions since Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in a bloodless coup last year.
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Democracy candidates picked up at least one more seat in parliament, according to exit polls.
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Liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko won a re-run of Ukraine's rigged presidential election by a substantial margin according to an exit poll published just after voting closed Sunday.
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Thais went to the polls Sunday in an election meant to restore democracy more than a year after the military ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose shadow looms large over the balloting.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has staged a political comeback, leading his first cabinet meeting since stepping aside seven weeks ago following street protests and controversial polls.
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On Sunday, supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are expected to win a majority in the first parliamentary elections since last September's military coup.
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A Thai court ruling clears the way for a party allied to ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra to form a government.
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Thailand's People Power Party (PPP), backed by ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, won support of five small allies on Saturday to lead a coalition government emerging after a December 23 general election.
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The pro-Thaksin party that won most votes in the Thai election claims it has enough backing to form a coalition.
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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 leading parties wooed possible partners for a coalition government on Monday, a day after allies of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came out on top in the country's first election since he was ousted in a September 2006 military coup.
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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.