Thais vote for Senate ahead of crucial deadline for PM
Fp Archives • . BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thais voted on Sunday for half of the country's 150-seat Senate in a key test for Yingluck Shinawatra's troubled government, a day before the prime minister is due to defend herself against negligence charges over a disastrous rice subsidy scheme. Anti-government protesters are in their fifth month of a campaign to force Yingluck out and set in motion political and electoral reforms before a new general election takes place. Yingluck's opponents want impeachment charges brought against the country's leader over the government's financially ruinous rice scheme.
