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Thailand: Instability Remains After Yingluck's Removal From Power

May 12, 2014 | 16:09 GMT

Thailand: Instability Remains After Yingluck's Removal From Power
Pro-Thaksin demonstrators at a rally in Phutthamonthon, a Bangkok suburb, on April 5.

(PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP/Getty Images)

Summary

The Thai political establishment has an opportunity over the next two months to remove Thaksin Shinawatra and his family from political influence, but the populist Thaksin movement will likely band together to resist this pressure. Instability will build in the lead-up to the July 20 elections, and Thailand's underlying constitutional and succession crisis will continue.

Thailand's establishment is attempting to divide the ruling Pheu Thai Party from its leaders in the Shinawatra family....

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