New party pledges to back Prayut as next PM

By KAS CHANWANPEN 
THE SUNDAY NATION

 

 

A KEY founder of a new political party that is openly pro-Prayut Chan-o-cha vowed yesterday to form an alliance after the election in a bid to help the junta leader return as head of government.

 

Paiboon Nititawan, a former member of the National Reform Council, stood firm that he would join forces with other parties and the junta-appointed Senate to back General Prayut to become an outsider prime minister.

 

Paiboon said he believed that his party would be able to find at least 125 votes from different parties, in addition to those of his own People Reform Party. They would team up with the 250 senators to prevent the use of the PM candidate lists proposed by parties and pave the way for an outsider prime minister.

 

According to the Constitution, the prime minister must come from the lists proposed by political parties before the election. However, if MPs failed to agree on the decision, at least 375 members of both houses could vote to forsake the list. After that, anyone who wins at least 500 votes from the 750-member joint houses of Parliament would become the PM.

Paiboon expressed his strong preference for an outsider prime minister, saying his party would not vote for any PM candidates from the PM list and would only vote for a non-MP prime minister.

 

“We support a PM candidate who is not affiliated with any party. He should be a neutral man,” Paiboon said. “Personally, I think Prayut is qualified. He has the capabilities and is honest. So far, he hasn’t been found to be involved in any fraud.”

 

If Prayut accepted a party’s invitation and became a PM candidate in that party’s list, Paiboon said he would consult with members of his party first.

 

He clarified that he wasn’t pledging sole allegiance to Prayut. A neutral PM can be anyone, not Prayut alone, he explained. Politicians have warned anyone nursing the ambition to become an outsider PM that it would not be easy to run the government. Although he or she may be backed by the Senate, such a candidate might not survive a vote of no confidence in the Lower House.

 

Paiboon argued yesterday that contrary to people’s fears, a non-elected PM would not be weak. He said he believed in Dharmacracy in which people with high morals should be able to rule.

 

He refused to predict how many seats he expected the People Reform Party to win in the next election. However, he also said he believed the election would happen in February next year as per the road map.

 

However, if the road map failed Paiboon said he believed it must be for some understandable reason.

 

A meeting of founding members of the People Reform Party yesterday was attended by around 300 people to find an agreement on the party name, logo and other issues. The event was held at Coast Condominium in the Bang Na area.

 

People Reform was only the second newly registered political party to get permission from the ruling National Council for Peace and Order to hold its general meeting. The first one was New Alternative Party, which is also pro-Prayut.

 

“The People Reform Party maintains that we will not be a political party like in old politics which was governed by personal and vested interests. We will be a tool for the people and focus on good governance,” Paiboon said yesterday.

 

Paiboon was voted by the members to be the first leader of the new party. 

 

Other party executives include retired military officers and academics, such as Rangsit University lecturer Mano Laohawanit, known as a staunch critic of the controversial temple Dhammakaya and its former abbot Phra Dhammachayo who is wanted in connection with an embezzlement scandal.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30342712

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-04-08

2 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Personally, I think Prayut is qualified. He has the capabilities and is honest.

 

Now they are queuing up to get their little snouts in the trough.... 

Those with the most poop on their noses, get to sit closer to the head of the trough !!

 

Lets hope that new party, with the young upstart at the helm, gets the jump on these dinosaurs...  

6 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Paiboon Nititawan, a former member of the National Reform Council, stood firm that he would join forces with other parties and the junta-appointed Senate to back General Prayut to become an outsider prime minister.

Well, I give him credit for honesty; he knows that Prayut can't win a majority or even a plurality of votes and isn't trying to hide that.

 

It is my view that if Prayut (or any other candidate) tries to attain power through the use of the appointed Senate, then there will be terrible repercussions. The Thai people, on several different sides of the political equation, have hit the streets when their political rights have been attacked and I can't see a reason to think that it wouldn't occur again.

 

Do the numbers 1-9-9-2 mean anything to anyone?

 

A wise man once said, "The past is a prologue to the present."

 

12 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

.......to find an agreement on the party name

May I suggest.....the Snivelers Party!

32 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Paiboon said he believed that his party would be able to find at least 125 votes from different parties, in addition to those of his own People Reform Party. They would team up with the 250 senators to prevent the use of the PM candidate lists proposed by parties and pave the way for an outsider prime minister.

this was the latent intent of the rigged rules all along; the search for intelligence here turns up scant results but, other than corruption,  generally, these folks do the devious dance as regards clinging to power

No pretense of honesty or intentions here.

AFAB party- Anything For A Baht?

Now that's a surprise. I had to sit down after reading it. HOPEless!

A key founder of a new political party has realized that there is serious money to be made by backing Prayut.

Even if you get caught breaking the rules, scamming, lying, sod all happens, just spin a good yarn about dead friends then carry on scamming.

 

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

openly pro-Prayut Chan-o-cha

 

Is that a bit like farting in public?

 

Joke party!

Only deceive.  

I thought we had this thread already a few weeks ago, or is this about another delusional party?

Turkeys voting to extend Christmas !

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

He said he believed in Dharmacracy in which people with high morals should be able to rule.

Dharmacracy: Totalitarian Buddhism

Narnia: Where politicians with high morals reside

Once we add gun toting puppeteers to the mix we have a system that makes Stalin's Russia appear Utopian

 

Confucius say: Politicians who raise their arms make room stinky

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Paiboon expressed his strong preference for an outsider prime minister,

That means that the PM could be a deaf and blind mute, which might actually be an improvement for Thailand, but these less than nimble minds want a man who cannot argue his way out of a paper bag.  

 

Given a choice, who would want these guys running the country over the Shinawartras ?  As bad as they were, they look so much better now. 

6 hours ago, PatOngo said:

May I suggest.....the Snivelers Party!

 

Perhaps the "Bootlickers and Grovellers Party"?

Note the glasses. Clearly all short-sighted and can't see any further than the end of the trough.

Funny that they are only talking of an outsider PM now as this position/possibility was supposed to only be a solution as a last resort. Load of BS...none of the junta cronies have the sand to face the public in an election. Hope the Dems or PT win in a landslide...or anyone, for that matter, would be better than these current jokers. Although, realistically, there may just end up being paralysis and it might be by design.

Edited April 8, 20188 yr by Sir Dude

9 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

Although, realistically, there may just end up being paralysis and it might be by design.

Edited 5 minutes ago by Sir Dude

Of course it is by design. The objective is at minima to be able to prevent anyone else to be elected. In case of deadlock, the NCPO is still in power whatever happens.

7 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Well, I give him credit for honesty; he knows that Prayut can't win a majority or even a plurality of votes and isn't trying to hide that.

 

It is my view that if Prayut (or any other candidate) tries to attain power through the use of the appointed Senate, then there will be terrible repercussions. The Thai people, on several different sides of the political equation, have hit the streets when their political rights have been attacked and I can't see a reason to think that it wouldn't occur again.

 

Do the numbers 1-9-9-2 mean anything to anyone?

 

A wise man once said, "The past is a prologue to the present."

 

yeah I remember 1992 are the circumstances now the same as then and have the people the guts like the students in 1992 or will a revolution keep them away from facebook, twitter and whatnot to even care about what's going on. 

Check the asset's!

2 hours ago, grumbleweed said:

Dharmacracy: Totalitarian Buddhism

Narnia: Where politicians with high morals reside

Once we add gun toting puppeteers to the mix we have a system that makes Stalin's Russia appear Utopian

 

Hyperbolic to say the least. Tell us, where are the gulags, the vast numbers shot without trial and the purges that characterized Stalin's paranoid and murderous rule? 

 

Even the Nazis couldn't match Stalin and boy did they try.

 

 

1 hour ago, yellowboat said:

That means that the PM could be a deaf and blind mute, which might actually be an improvement for Thailand, but these less than nimble minds want a man who cannot argue his way out of a paper bag.  

 

Given a choice, who would want these guys running the country over the Shinawartras ?  As bad as they were, they look so much better now. 

 

There's a paradigm in there somewhere!

 

But neither are particularly good choices unless you happen to be one of the gangs' members. And we can only imagine what directions the Shins would have taken the country had they got their boss back untouchable and their hands on the 2.2 trillion baht loan with diminished checks and balances they were planning. Although to be fair, until those in power clean up their own act and reform the justice system there ain't gonna be much change. Transparency - not a chance.

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

“We support a PM candidate who is not affiliated with any party. He should be a neutral man,” Paiboon said. “Personally, I think Prayut is qualified. He has the capabilities and is honest. So far, he hasn’t been found to be involved in any fraud.”

Clearly love makes blind.......(and creates selective memory)......Khun Paiboon, your hero is as dirty as the rest...

 

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-31/thailand-s-junta-leader-has-millions-in-cash-cars-luxury-goods

Edited April 8, 20188 yr by JOC

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

 

There's a paradigm in there somewhere!

 

But neither are particularly good choices unless you happen to be one of the gangs' members. And we can only imagine what directions the Shins would have taken the country had they got their boss back untouchable and their hands on the 2.2 trillion baht loan with diminished checks and balances they were planning. Although to be fair, until those in power clean up their own act and reform the justice system there ain't gonna be much change. Transparency - not a chance.

Happy to see that the but, but, Thaksin  posters are still alive and kicking....

2 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

There's a paradigm in there somewhere!

 

But neither are particularly good choices unless you happen to be one of the gangs' members. And we can only imagine what directions the Shins would have taken the country had they got their boss back untouchable and their hands on the 2.2 trillion baht loan with diminished checks and balances they were planning. Although to be fair, until those in power clean up their own act and reform the justice system there ain't gonna be much change. Transparency - not a chance.

Those who took power at gun point had no intention of doing anything for the country and they never will.  The Shins allowed Thailand to be Thailand.  The Army does not know what it wants other than submarines, watches and power.  

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

would be able to find at least 125 votes

at least 125 brown envelopes necessary......

14 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

 

Confucius say: Politicians who raise their arms make room stinky

Jurassic Park 4: Return of the Dinosaurs 

Chinese style party? Everyone votes to keep the boss in power for life. That's what is needed.