BANGKOK: Thailand’s government wants controversial elections to go ahead this weekend, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday, despite threats by opposition protesters to disrupt the polls to stop the ruling party returning to power.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shi–nawatra was due to meet election officials who want to delay the vote following street violence in which at least 10 people have been killed and hundreds injured in grenade attacks, drive-by shootings and clashes.

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