Reuters, Bangkok

The party backing ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra easily won the most seats in Sunday’s election, creating a big problem for the generals who booted out the telecoms billionaire in a 2006 coup.
With about 75 percent of the vote counted, the People Power Party (PPP) was heading for 230 seats in the 480-member parliament, short of an outright majority but enough to form a government in a coalition with just one minor party.
The big question is whether the army and the royalist establishment, whom the Thaksin camp says were behind the bloodless putsch, will stand by and watch its arch-enemy make a comeback by proxy. [Read more]