Timeline: Key events since Thailand´s last general election
(WorldNews Asia)

BANGKOK (AP) - 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. Here’s a look the key political events since Thailand’s last general election. _____ 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...