Thailand: The baffling mathematics that helps to keep the junta in power

By making the electoral code complex and opaque, the ruling junta has made the system incomprehensible to most voters

Thailand’s March general election was the first poll since the country’s military deposed the government of Yingluck Shinawatra in 2014. And there are now fears that the ruling junta will manipulate the country’s complex electoral code to achieve its own desired result.

Given the significant deterioration of domestic freedoms since the Thai military staged a coup d'état in 2014 and dissolved the elected government, there were low expectations for the election which took place, after considerable delay, on March 24.

And so the fact that the opposition Pheu Thai (PT) party, affiliated with Thailand’s exiled former