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    'Everything is already decided': Thailand's army is set to cement power with an election

    by Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times Mar 21, 2019 5 minutes

    BANGKOK - Wearing identical white nylon track jackets, seemingly impervious to the swampy afternoon heat, the half-dozen candidates breezed through a sprawling covered market on the outskirts of Bangkok and waved to a smattering of shoppers.

    Days before Thailand's first national elections in eight years, party workers raced ahead to distribute long-stemmed roses to shopkeepers. The merchants then politely handed the flowers to the candidates - members of Palang Pracharat, a brand-new party representing Thailand's ruling military junta - with brief bows and smiles for the accompanying cameras.

    Casting a sideways glance from behind bagfuls of onions and green chilies, shopkeeper Harit Wichachai was unimpressed.

    "It seems they have the election in their pocket," Wichachai, a 29-year-old from rural northern Thailand, said of the pro-military party.

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