She was proposed for premier by the Thai Raksa Chart party, which is aligned with the powerful Shinawatra clan and is now facing dissolution for the bold, perhaps foolish, move. Dao Dao, a fortune teller in a central Bangkok district, flips over a tarot card featuring "The Wheel of Fortune". "Yes, (junta leader Prayut) will come back as prime minister," she said. Thai politics has revolved around billionaire ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra for almost two decades, and his party and its proxies have won every election since 2001. "I can't dare to predict who will be prime minister.... All I know is that the results of the election will stun us."

Source: Bangkok Post February 13, 2019 08:53 UTC