Thailand will hold a general election in November 2018, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday, the most precise date he has given yet for the vote since taking power in a 2014 military coup. Prayuth had promised immediately after his May 2014 coup to return power to civilians within 18 months. Three years after coup, the junta is deeply embedded in Thai life, Reuters reports. The military now controls 143 out of 250 parliamentary seats. Under the previous junta after the 2006 coup, the military held 67 out of 242 seats.