Election officials in Thailand have started to prepare ballot boxes ahead of Sunday’s general election. <br /><br />The government is going ahead with the vote despite protester threats to cause disruption and stop Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s political party from returning to power. <br /><br />The demonstraters have been camping out at major intersections in Bangkok, which forced almost all advance polling stations to close in the city last weekend. <br /><br />They are demanding an unelected “people’s council” to reform the political system. <br /><br />A truck used by protesters to block a road to a local district office housing election material has been shot today. There is a growing fear of violence with a lot more people expected to try and cast their ballot.<br /><br />Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, a former deputy prime minister under a previous opposition led-government, has said that polling would not be blocked. <br /><br />Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has asked demonstraters to respect Thailand’s democratic principles.<br /><br />Ten people have been killed and over 500 wounded in politics-related violence in the country since November.
