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                Thai PM Holds Meeting to Consider Delaying Vote

   by VOA News

   Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is meeting with election
   commission officials to consider delaying this Sunday's scheduled vote.
   Yingluck has insisted the snap elections must go on as planned, in
   order to end a months-long political crisis that has threatened her
   rule, but the election commission wants the vote delayed, saying the
   risk of further unrest and an opposition boycott make the vote
   impossible.
   Hundreds of anti-government protesters gathered outside the army
   compound where the meeting is scheduled to be held later Tuesday.
   Opposition protesters have already disrupted some early voting and vow
   to completely block routes to polling stations for the February 2
   polls.
   Prime Minister Yingluck called for the early elections, dissolved
   parliament and created a reform body as a way out of the crisis.
   However, the protesters want reforms to take place before any election,
   saying the results will be manipulated by Yingluck's ruling Pheu Thai
   party.
   Last week, Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled that the elections
   could legally be delayed, but only with the permission of the prime
   minister and election commission.
   The opposition views the current government as corrupt and controlled
   by Yingluck's brother, the exiled ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
   Analysts say even with the participation of the opposition, the ruling
   party would almost certainly win the election, in part because of the
   popularity of Thaksin.
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