"WEvote for policies, not for a party," declares Jutamas Kamsomsri, a housewife in a farming family in the village of Nakam. "We aren't stupid, we watch the news on Facebook," the bespectacled matriarch adds. This in itself may be news to those who assume that voters in Isaan, a poor region in north-east Thailand that is home to roughly a third of the country's 69m people, are blindly loyal to Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister deposed in a coup in 2006, and to his sister Yingluck Shinawatra, who ran the country for almost three years until another coup ousted her in 2014.
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