Independent Candidates Redraw Thailand’s Political Makeup

Ruling junta’s allies buried in gubernatorial vote

Barring a not-unlikely attempt to disqualify him on a pretext of using unauthorized campaign posters, Chadchart Sittipunt, an independent candidate from the pro-democracy camp, is likely to become the next governor of Bangkok, possibly setting off a revolution in Thai politics after eight years of misrule by the deeply corrupt junta that took power in a…