Campaigning has wrapped up for Thailand’s election with the most important events making their last pitch to huge crowds at their last rallies.

Some 52 million Thais are eligible to vote in Sunday’s election, with the opposition events promising to finish the army’s political dominance and even reform the omnipotent monarchy – a problem as soon as seen as taboo.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a former military chief who got here to energy in a 2014 coup and now leads the lately shaped United Thai Nation social gathering, made an emotional last plea for votes.

“We should love one another. We’re Thailand, we’re a household,” he advised his supporters.

“If we’re not elected, I gained’t be standing right here … will you miss me if I’m not right here? As a result of I’ll miss all of you.”

Opinion polls present Pheu Thai, the biggest opposition social gathering, is prone to win most seats, because it has in each election since 2001.

Its candidates for prime minister embrace Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of household patriarch and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was given a rock star welcome as she arrived on the social gathering’s closing rally in Bangkok.

“Might 14 will probably be a historic day. We are going to change from a dictatorship to a democratically elected authorities,” 36-year-old Paetongtarn advised hundreds of supporters clad within the social gathering’s signature pink.

The election is the primary since 2020 when large protests referred to as for unprecedented reforms to the powers of ultra-wealthy King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

Transfer Ahead, led by telegenic Harvard-educated entrepreneur Pita Limjaroenrat, seems to have harnessed a lot of the vitality of that youth-led protest motion, which voiced deep disaffection with the previous political system.

However in a kingdom that has seen a dozen coups previously century, there are fears the army might search to cling on to energy – regardless of assurances from the present military chief that it could not intervene this time.

Whoever turns into prime minister might want to safe the help not solely of the five hundred folks elected to the decrease home, but in addition the 250 members of the military-appointed Senate.