Thai PM Prayuth Chan-ocha to run for re-election | Elections News

The former general has been in power since 2014 and is running with the new United Thai Nation Party.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has accepted his party’s nomination as prime minister and will run for re-election in polls set for May 14.

Prayuth, a 69-year-old former general, has promised to build a new political climate that does away with decades of conflict. He is running with the recently formed United Thai Nation Party.

The incumbent, in power since 2014 when the military toppled a civilian government, brought in five years of army-enforced stability.

But after he was selected Thailand’s civilian leader after the 2019 election, there were new outbursts of violence as his government used heavy-handed measures to try to curb student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.

Party leader Pirapan Salirathavibhaga was nominated as the party’s second candidate for prime…