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By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister and coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Wednesday that a roadmap to return the country to democracy was on schedule, confirming plans for a general election in early 2016. Prayuth's comments came amid renewed tensions in Thailand, following twin bomb blasts in Bangkok on Sunday and last month's decision to ban former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from politics. "If everything goes according to our plan at the start of next year there will be a new general election," Prayuth told reporters in Bangkok, following a high-level meeting with cabinet members, the military and the country's legislature. Thailand has been divided for nearly a decade between rival camps: one led by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who like his sister Yingluck was deposed in a coup, and the other by the Bangkok-based royalist-military establishment.
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