Thailand will hold its first general election Sunday since the military ousted the elected government in a coup nearly five years ago.
Thailand has a long history of cycling through elected governments that are then ousted by the army, which in time allows fresh elections.July 3, 2011: The Pheu Thai Party led by Yingluck Shinawatra, the sister of fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, wins a landslide majority in the general election. Thaksin was ousted by a 2006 military coup and fled Thailand in 2008 to avoid serving a prison term for a conflict of interest conviction.
Nov. 24, 2013: As many as 100,000 anti-government protesters rally in Bangkok, demanding that Yingluck's government step down. Dec. 9, 2013: Yingluck dissolves the House of Representatives and calls early elections for Feb. 2, 2014. May 7, 2014: The Constitutional Court removes Yingluck and several ministers of her caretaker government for abuse of power in connection with the 2011 transfer of a high-ranking civil servant.
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