BANGKOK (Reuters) - Many&nbsp;Thais lined up on Sunday in long queues to vote&nbsp;early&nbsp;in parliamentary&nbsp;elections scheduled for May 14.
More than 2 million&nbsp;Thais had registered for&nbsp;early&nbsp;voting out of 52 million eligible&nbsp;voters&nbsp;who are aged 18 and above, according to the country's&nbsp;election&nbsp;commission.
"I wish to see change and improvement in management," said 51-year-old Gosol Pungtaku,&nbsp;one&nbsp;of the 800,000 Bangkok residents who registered for&nbsp;one-day-only&nbsp;early&nbsp;voting in the capital.
Another voter, 34-year-old Siriporn Namphet, said she voted for change.
"Its like having seen what the previous government has done&nbsp;and now hoping for a new administration to take over and govern more effectively," she told Reuters.
The&nbsp;election&nbsp;could upset the status quo after more than eight years of a conservative pro-military government led by former army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha.
Prayuth, 69, who first seized power in a 2014 coup and remained prime minister after the 2019&nbsp;election&nbsp;that critics said was rigged to favour the junta leader, a charge the government denied, is trailing far behind opposition parties in recent opinion polls.
Opposition Pheu&nbsp;Thai&nbsp;Party, a populist group that won five general&nbsp;elections&nbsp;before&nbsp;2019 and was ousted by Prayuth in the coup, is leading in most polls followed by the progressive Move Forward Party.
The&nbsp;election&nbsp;is for the 500-seat House of Representatives.
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(Reporting by Napat Wesshasartar and Artorn Pookasook, writing by Panu Wongcha-um; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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