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Polls open in controversial Thai election
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-04-02 09:17
Polling booths in Thailand opened at 8 am (0100) on Sunday in a election
called three years early by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to try to foil a
street campaign to oust him.
Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais) party is expected to win a
thumping majority, but an opposition boycott means the result might not satisfy
the constitution, which says all 500 seats in parliament must be filled to allow
a government to be formed.
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