Thailand's prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha plays traditional game for votes in park kickabout

| Apr 21, 2023, 01:12:27 PM | AP
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Thailand's prime minister showed off sporting skills in a traditional Thai ball game during a re-election campaign walkabout in a Bangkok park on Thursday. Sixty-nine-year-old Prayuth Chan-ocha hitched up his pants, stretched his legs and flung himself at the wicker ball, with occasional help from his staff to keep him upright. The former general, who first came to power in a military coup in 2014, is hoping to regain the prime minister's position after an election next month. Thursday's park kickabout appeared to be an attempt by his strategists to cast him as a fun-loving, everyday uncle, mucking in with the people.

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