Fuadi Pitsuwan is president of the Surin Pitsuwan Foundation, which promotes education, diplomacy and human security for young Southeast Asians, and is a pre-doctoral fellow in public policy at Chiang Mai University in Thailand.
Opinion polls suggest that most Thais exercising their democratic right to vote this weekend prefer a different future than the one decided for them over the past eight years under the administration of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.
