Chadchart Sittipunt’s landslide win to become Bangkok governor was the product of strategic voting by pro-democracy supporters and will be repeated in the next general election, according to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Some voters wanted to vote for the candidate of Move Forward, the second-largest opposition party, but decided instead to cast their ballots for Mr Chadchart who they thought had a better chance of winning, Thaksin said in an interview on The Room 44 website on Sunday. The votes for Mr Chadchart were not manufactured, he said. Rather, they were enticed to back the …

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