泰国大选在紧张局势中开幕

泰国大选在紧张局势中开幕

Thai voters go to the polls under heavy security on Sunday to decide on the country's future. The election kicked off at 8 a.m. local time and Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has cast her vote at a polling station near her residence.

the general election at a polling station in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014.

Thai Prime Minister and Pheu Thai party leader Yingluck Shinawatra casts her ballot for

Today’s voting will last until 3 p.m., with over 93 thousand polling stations set up in 375 constituencies nationwide. It remains unclear how much anti-government protesters were going to try to disrupt the process. Some polling stations have been blocked, but others were reporting no disruption to the transfer of ballot boxes and papers to the polling stations.

The Election Commission has just decided to cancel voting at all polling stations in the Lak Si district in Bangkok, as clashes between protesters and government supporters injured 8 people on the eve of the elections. Some 130,000 police officers will be on duty nationwide on Sunday, with 12,000 in Bangkok.