BANGKOK: Thai Deputy Prime Minister
Wissanu Krea-ngam said on Monday a general election will be held next year between Feb. 24 and May 5, signalling the possibility of another delay of a vote that had tentatively been set for next February.
Wissanu also told reporters the ruling junta would lift a ban, in place since a 2014 coup, on some political activity by parties between September and December this year.
But a ban on campaigning would remain during that period, Wissanu said.
The military has been running
Thailand since the May 2014 coup when it ousted the civilian government of Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra.