Yingluck Shinawatra is to become Thailand’s first female prime minister after the main opposition party swept to victory in the country’s hotly contested elections.
The vote represents a clear rejection of Thailand’s conservative establishment five years after Ms Yingluck’s brother and former prime minister, Thaksin, was toppled in an army coup.
With more than 85 per cent of the vote counted, Puea Thai was projected to win 262 of the 500 seats in the lower house of parliament, a comfortable lead over the incumbent, Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva’s Democrats, who look to have won only 160 seats.
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