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Survey: Less Than Half of Thais will go to vote

Suan Dusit Poll survey published this afternoon revealed that only 45.56% of surveyed people said they planned to vote if the election goes ahead.

19.8% said they would not turn out to vote, 15.78% said they might vote depending on the situation at that time, 14% said they were unsure if they would vote or not, and 5.33% said they were not likely to vote.

http://dusitpoll.dusit.ac.th/polldata/2557/25571390540566.pdf

Don't take these Elitist-rooted Polls pretending to be public opinion too seriously.....For all intents and purposes, this Poll was put out by PDRC associates....NIDA Polls are another similar one.

You're 52 posts late in this thread as many members have already taken the results of the other poll posted earlier in the OP as the divine truth.

Still, I'm curious about your assertions. Could you share the names of the PDRC associates who control these polls? Who specifically are these "Elitist-rooted".

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Trouble is, in Thailand, if you don't vote in an election, you loose your right to vote in the following, or at least, that is what the uneducated, in the North are made to believe here. I wouldn't count on it being true, but people up here believe it is, so of course, they will vote, because they think, they will loose there voting privileges for the future, if they don't vote in this election.

It's not true, so any entity promulgating that is lying.

Admittedly, it's a potent threat, but it is a lie.

Survey: Less Than Half of Thais will go to vote

Suan Dusit Poll survey published this afternoon revealed that only 45.56% of surveyed people said they planned to vote if the election goes ahead.

19.8% said they would not turn out to vote, 15.78% said they might vote depending on the situation at that time, 14% said they were unsure if they would vote or not, and 5.33% said they were not likely to vote.

http://dusitpoll.dusit.ac.th/polldata/2557/25571390540566.pdf

I don't agree with disrupting a praying session but:

Islamic Officials Slam PCAD's Mosque Siege

A bunch of guys disrupting a praying session by closing the gate and blowing whistles is not really a siege...

A Siege, maybe not, but there's disruption by closing a gate and blowing whistles and then there's

The protesters reportedly demanded that the Muslims must cease all activities inside mosque immediately, including the religious lectures in the mosque′s religious school.

According Muslim Thai, although a Muslim cleric tried to explain that the religious activities at the mosque cannot be stopped, his explanation was ignored by the protesters, some of whom were allegedly intoxicated. When the cleric threatened call a local district chief to resolve the matter, a leader of the protesters replied that he is welcomed to do so, as the protesters will also call for reinforcements, according to the report.

So what part of that "disruption" are you defending?

If you can read you know that I don't defend any part. I am just questioning why the word SIEGE is used!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege

It's Khao Sod news. That's what they do.

It's interesting to read all the posts referring to the "alleged" and uncorroborated aspects of their borrowed news, like the gun shooting, as if it was the absolute and irrefutable truth.

Yet when similarly unnamed sources or uncorroboatrated news comes from The Nation, it's discarded and dismissed by these same posters as biased rubbish.

The inconsistent hypocrisy is amusing.

political stress syndrome?? Is that even a thing? You can't make that shit up, can you?

It's not a thing.

Yingluck's Public Health Minister can and did make this <deleted> up.

Try to google Tak Bai and Krung See!!

Another good google is red shirt leader Arisaman threatening to burn every Muslim mosque in Thailand down to the ground.

When did he make these threats, tried googling it but can't find it.

Check out this video on YouTube:

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... "and calming ones mind by doing religious practices." From the frying pan, into the fire.

Indeed, religion and politics.

As said, the Public Health Minister didn't invest much thought in his new claimed malady.

Newspapers and journalists also have to bear some responsibility. The Nation for instance, a blatantly anti-thaksin newspaper, is pumping out the propaganda (and probably generating good sales due to the gullibility of its target market). I believe they should show a bit more social and journalistic responsibility instead of fanning the flames.

Another example is the aptly named Khao Sod, a blatantly pro-Thaksin newspaper, is pumping out propaganda (and probably generating great sales due to the gullibility of its tarket market). It's evident that they should show a bit more social and journalistic responsibility instead of fanning the flames.

Surely political stress syndrome would be PSS and not PPS. Google the term and the top results are all Thai,

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You'll have to forgive Yingluck's Public Health Minister.

He's just making it all up as he goes...

If he's going to postulate on wholly new ailments, he'd be better off investigating his own symptoms of a Thainess Disorientation Virus (TDV) infection.

then there was Ferdinand Marcos ... elected by majority and thrown out by people power ...

I agree with the premise that elected governments that break the law have themselves thrown away their legitimacy ...

And the philipines is now corruption free?

Just as was Thailand before thaksin? At least he spread money to the impoverished north or don't you have access to Google or independent media?

No, it's not corruption free, but it is less.

Irregardless, there were a lot more problems, besides corruption, by Marcos (and repeated by Thaksin in Thailand).

There are many, many similarities between Marcos and Thaksin.

Thousands of human rights violations comes to the forefront.

He's due to face charges and as far as Abhisit is concerned he hasn't avoided evidence at all as the trial hasn't started yet. Suthep is only causing problems because he's leading a protest but his trial hasn't started either.

So your reasons for knowing they are guilty as sin so far are: He's due to face a court on murder charges. He's so far managed to avoid facing the court and the evidence.

I think you'll have to do better than that.

How about giving us this evidence that you presumably have a grasp of. I know what I've found out but if you've got anything else I'd be pleased to see it and if it makes me change my tune I'll certainly let you know.

I've mentioned the reasons why I think that the evidence so far points to the army being guilty and not Abhisit and Suthep (who by the way I don't like) many times on this forum and as far as I'm aware nobody has ever questioned what I've said. You're the first but you haven't backed it up yet.

You are entitled to your opinion, and entitled to try to defend Suthep if you wish. I want him to face his murder charges and would like to see the maximum sentence possible.

You'll have to take a number as the queue for those wanting that of Thaksin is much longer and have been waiting for a much longer period of time.

He's having a giraffe, occupancy rates are well, well down.

I flew in from Manila on Monday on a TG flight, not even half full and most people were heading onto the Middle East. I then caught the flight to Trat and the flight was not even half full, at this time of the year normally it is full. Even the airport was quiet, and minimal queues at immigration.

The same news radio broadcast was reporting thousands of cancellations and another country was advising its citizens in-country to leave.

Government Smiles and Lies.

5%....more like 50%.

This afternoon on the forum's new news radio, they were citing tourism agencies saying a 40% drop, or 8 times what the smiling Sports Minister Somsak Pureesrisak is claiming.

shows that YL is history..Thasin already has her replacement ready in C Mai

Is he looking for a larger mansion in Dubai to accommodate Poo and her son?

Is her husband not welcome in Dubai by his brother-in-law to join his wife and son there?

I understand why on the Pheu Thai election posters I see, the photo of Ms. Yingluck in the left upper corner is from two-and-a-half-year ago

It displays a Yingluck of 25 years ago.

Btw, Her guy on the right, Pongsapat, lost.

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well the picture speaks for its self.

Is the picture even related to the story, or is it just a file picture?

True, there have been so many red shirts caught with all sorts of war weapons and explosives of all sorts, that it is difficult to track which one is which.

Perhaps in recognition of that, the news media simplify things by maintaing an assortment of a dozen or so different red shirt-connected explosives photos that they rotate around as file photos to news articles.

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Being charged over her complicity in the rice scheme corruption will be the least of her worries. With the precedent clearly set(by her own govt) to charge sitting PMs for premeditated murder in a personal capacity for any deaths caused by state officials during riots or civil unrest, she will have 9 premeditated murder charges to deal with first. She will not get out of prison until she is about 360 years old so will be in no fit state to stand trial for policy corruption at that age.

Get your facts right. 9 people haven't been killed by state officials and unlike Abhisit and Suthep she hasn't ordered an army crackdown with live fire that resulted in scores of deaths.

Maybe that's because these protesters aren't using M79 grenade launchers and automatic weapons? They certainly didn't authorise a lethal war on drugs, either. Keep it in perspective.

But they did approve tow immigrants out to sea to starve to death.

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Go ahead with the February 2 elections, Yingluck. Your days are numbered anyway. You can be the democratically elected PM until they throw you in jail.

since when did millionaires go to jail here, the Red Bull kid is still running around free. They dont and she will not.

Difficult to deny billionaires like Yingluck would actually face jail. For example, her billionaire sister-in-law Potjaman never spent a day in jail for three years after having been found guilty and sentenced to prison.

Being charged over her complicity in the rice scheme corruption will be the least of her worries. With the precedent clearly set(by her own govt) to charge sitting PMs for premeditated murder in a personal capacity for any deaths caused by state officials during riots or civil unrest, she will have 9 premeditated murder charges to deal with first. She will not get out of prison until she is about 360 years old so will be in no fit state to stand trial for policy corruption at that age.

If she is charged, she should just follow coward Suthep's lead and start a protest group to avoid it like him.

Being a clone, she will absolutely follow her like-a-father-but-really-just-a-brother's lead and become yet another convicted fugitive Ex-Prime Minister, same as him.

Clear as a bell as accessed on a tablet.

A nice addition to the forum.

Quite informative.

Thank you, but could you do something about the news announcer's accent and voice, please?

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The decision was made in 15 minutes

Seems about par for this administration.

Suthep has absolutely no quarrel with Kwanchai. Suthep wants the Shinawats to leave politics, he is not anti red shirts.

And Kwanchai is irrelevant, spurned by the other red leaders and sometimes by Thaksin, he is seen as a buffoon with a big mouth.

He has plenty of enemies, what better time for a rival to take a pot shot,( hopelessly amateur as it was), than during a time of national political conflict when it's easy to get fingers pointing at the 'other side'.

Very valid points.

A buffoon often shooting off his mouth like when he claimed he had 10 million red shirts to escort Thaksin across the Lao Friendship bridge back to Thailand. Often at odds against other red shirt leaders.

Additionally, a violent leader of red shirts in his own Udon Thani who led an unprovoked attack against PAD there.

Live by the sword and all that.

His enemy list is a long one.

Brilliant deduction Watson. Now can you tell us some we don't know. Like who did it.

But some Thai Visa experts have determined that it was a crime of passion or a bad business deal anything but politics because that could implicate the gentle peace loving Suthep and his supporters.

Don't you mean Thaivisa Experts like this one who sussed out the perps a half hour after the news was posted yesterday?

Yellow thugs at work outside their protest sites... Terrible ... >_>