Thailand goes to the polls in first post-coup election
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)Choltanutkun Tun-Atiruj wasn’t old enough to vote in the last official elections held in Thailand in 2011.
Like many of the 7 million other first time voters, she came of age during half a decade of military rule that has governed the country since former general turned Prime Minister Prayut-chan-o-cha seized power in a 2014 coup.
“We have had our voice taken away for five years,” she says.
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