resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. Jatuporn Prompan, a former top leader of the

By Panu Wongcha-um5 Min ReadBANGKOK( Reuters)-A year after the start of student-led protests against Thailand’s military-backed government, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is facing growing anger amid a mounting wave of coronavirus infections and a dismal economy. FILE PHOTO: A pro-democracy demonstrator holds a portrait of Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, at at gathering at Democracy Monument to demand the release of four protestors who were charged under a lese majeste law, in Bangkok,

At stake may be the fate of democracy in a nation that has repeatedly tried to overturn military rule and in a region where autocracy is on the rise.“ Thailand is not ready to change, ” said Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi, a political scientist at Thammasat University in Bangkok.... “ People in the establishment are not going to let change happen.” Opposition parties tend to come and go in Thailand.... But analysts say the opposition could offer a compromise: a new coalition led by the populist Pheu Th