Featured photojournalist: Damir Sagolj

A girl waits outside a polling station as soldiers stand in line before casting their ballots in advance voting before the general election at the university campus in Udon Thani in north-eastern Thailand Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Chuwit Kamolvisit, a former massage parlour tycoon turned politician and a candidate for his Rak Prathetthai (Love Thailand) party, campaigns in Bangkok's notorious Patpong district Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

A man flashes the trademark sign of toppled premier Thaksin Shinawatra as his arch rival, Thailand's prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, campaigns for his ruling Democrat party under a business building in Bangkok Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Supporters react as Thailand's prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva campaigns for his ruling Democrat party in Bangkok. The general election might be a step on the road to stability after five years of political turbulence Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

A girl wearing a traditional costume shelters from the rain during a religious ceremony outside a temple in the village of Suan Mon near Udon Thani. Regional leaders of Thailand's red-shirt protest movement held a traditional Buddhist ceremony to launch 38 villages to be designated as the Red Shirt Village of Democracy Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

A Buddhist monk passes by an armed guard securing the train station in the troubled Pattani province in southern Thailand. More than 4,500 people have been killed in violence since January 2004 in Thailand's three southern-most provinces, a region of dense jungles and rubber plantations a few hours' drive from world-class beach resorts Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

A girl wearing a traditional costume holds a placard displaying a picture of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra during a religious ceremony at a temple in the village of Suan Mon near Udon Thani in north-eastern Thailand. The red shirts, supporters of Thaksin, have been branding hundreds of villages as red to rally behind Thaksin's sister, Yingluck, who is leading the opposition in advance of the general elections Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Anti-government ''red shirt'' protesters insult a picture of Thailand's prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, of the ruling Democrat party as they gather at Ratchaprasong intersection in Bangkok's shopping district. A group of anti-government activists held a religious ceremony recently to curse their arch-rivals from the Democrat party at the same shopping district they occupied during the 2010 unrest that killed 91 people and wounded at least 1,800 Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

An anti-government "red shirt" protester with a fake wound on his head, sings during a gathering to commemorate killed comrades in Bangkok's shopping district Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

People react as supporters of Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of toppled premier Thaksin Shinawatra and the prime ministerial candidate for the country's biggest opposition Pheu Thai party, campaign in Bangkok's notorious Klong Toey slum. The mostly low-income red shirts broadly support ousted populist premier Thaksin Shinawatra Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Supporters of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra attend a religious ceremony at a temple in the village of Suan Mon near Udon Thani in north-eastern Thailand Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Supporters try to touch the hand of Thailand's prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, as he campaigns for his ruling Democrat party in Bangkok Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters