Chonlanan Srikaew, the Pheu Thai leader. (Photo by facebook @cholnanFC

 

New Pheu Thai leader Chonlanan Srikaew appears to have acknowledged he won’t be a prime ministerial candidate for the opposition party at the next general election.

 

The five-time MP also agrees that political novice Paetongtarn Shinawatra – the youngest daughter of ex-premier and Pheu Thai patriarch Thaksin – will likely be one of the party’s three PM candidates.

 

“Our PM candidates have not [previously] included the party leader, a practice we should maintain [in the next election],” Chonlanan said. “We want to separate managing the party from running the country.”

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/chonlanan-srikaew-the-medic-politician-aiming-to-nurse-pheu-thai-back-to-power/

 

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the second pm candidate being thaksin's former wife.

I don't know who their third candidate is.

With pandemic still ongoing and with his profession, he is more qualified than those 2 women. Just they are nice faces and will bring votes.

And being under thaksin's influence they they won't champion constitutionals and monarchy reforms. They would be holding all important politics on the back burner, just in order to survive in parliament.

Now the main purpose of phua thai is to disarm move forward - their main competitor.

For that they will form a coalition with prawit's PPP. And it would be prawit himself (or his protege former drug minister thammanat or such), and no phua thai candidate, for the pm post. 

Edited November 4, 20214 yr by internationalism

3 hours ago, internationalism said:

the second pm candidate being thaksin's former wife.

I don't know who their third candidate is.

With pandemic still ongoing and with his profession, he is more qualified than those 2 women. Just they are nice faces and will bring votes.

And being under thaksin's influence they they won't champion constitutionals and monarchy reforms. They would be holding all important politics on the back burner, just in order to survive in parliament.

Now the main purpose of phua thai is to disarm move forward - their main competitor.

For that they will form a coalition with prawit's PPP. And it would be prawit himself (or his protege former drug minister thammanat or such), and no phua thai candidate, for the pm post. 

Aside all of this, I'd be more curious as to what makes Pheu Thai an opposition as to their real existence among the establishment?