Why Thammanat and Thai Economic Party could be PM Prayut’s worst nightmare

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Thammanat Prompao has finally found a new home, but the once most powerful broker in Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s ruling coalition has kept everyone guessing about his new role. Will he remain a thorn in the premier’s side or will he fulfill his desire to become part of Prayut’s government?

 

After his expulsion from the ruling Palang Pracharath Party in January, Thammanat led 17 MPs under his faction to a new home in the Thai Economic Party. On Friday (Mar 18), the party elected General Vitch Devahasdin Na Ayudhya as its leader and Thammanat as secretary-general.

 

Vitch is the former chairman of Palang Pracharath’s strategic committee while Thammanat is its former secretary-general.

 

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[ThailandRyan]

He was not being fed enough from the trough and now he wants his full cut, just like a top drug dealer like he is would want no matter what.  Bodies will be falling somewhere, they always do.

[hotchilli]

He knows how the game is played...

[Sydebolle]

Yet another proof that this is a completely failed state. If such figures can make it that high up, he will stop at nothing. Traveling with illicit substances to Australia, getting booked and served four years for a crime which would have had him hanged in his homeland, running around with a dodgy doctorate from a laundromat university somewhere in California ............

But, if the gifted Thai voter sees nothing wrong with this candidate as a politician and possibly even as the prime minister, de facto CEO of the country, then the Thai people do not deserve any better. 

You have to revamp the entire system, clean it out completely - be warned, Thailand will be facing a bumpy ride one day with bloodshed of the makings of a civil war. Thailand as a country and its people deserve definitely better but as long as the uneducated illiterate majority in a cast-system structure is being kept below carpet and tiles ....... 

[kingstonkid]

imagine if thais demanded that people running actually have a platform and have to face the people so that they can meet them and see them debate others

[candide]

3 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

Yet another proof that this is a completely failed state. If such figures can make it that high up, he will stop at nothing. Traveling with illicit substances to Australia, getting booked and served four years for a crime which would have had him hanged in his homeland, running around with a dodgy doctorate from a laundromat university somewhere in California ............

But, if the gifted Thai voter sees nothing wrong with this candidate as a politician and possibly even as the prime minister, de facto CEO of the country, then the Thai people do not deserve any better. 

You have to revamp the entire system, clean it out completely - be warned, Thailand will be facing a bumpy ride one day with bloodshed of the makings of a civil war. Thailand as a country and its people deserve definitely better but as long as the uneducated illiterate majority in a cast-system structure is being kept below carpet and tiles ....... 

Well, he's an amateur in this department compared to some others. Smuggling weapons to the Red Khmer comes to mind.....

Edited March 23, 2022 by candide

[NoshowJones]

13 hours ago, candide said:

Well, he's an amateur in this department compared to some others. Smuggling weapons to the Red Khmer comes to mind.....

and the unelected soldier posing as a PM is a professional?????????????????

[Mr Meeseeks]

17 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

Yet another proof that this is a completely failed state. If such figures can make it that high up, he will stop at nothing. Traveling with illicit substances to Australia, getting booked and served four years for a crime which would have had him hanged in his homeland, running around with a dodgy doctorate from a laundromat university somewhere in California ............

But, if the gifted Thai voter sees nothing wrong with this candidate as a politician and possibly even as the prime minister, de facto CEO of the country, then the Thai people do not deserve any better. 

You have to revamp the entire system, clean it out completely - be warned, Thailand will be facing a bumpy ride one day with bloodshed of the makings of a civil war. Thailand as a country and its people deserve definitely better but as long as the uneducated illiterate majority in a cast-system structure is being kept below carpet and tiles ....... 

Couldn't have said it better.

 

They get exactly what they deserve.

[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Couldn't have said it better.

 

They get exactly what they deserve.

Unfortunately it is the little people that end up paying the ultimate price...sucks really as any of us can just decide to pack up and move on while they can not.

[Mr Meeseeks]

14 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

imagine if thais demanded that people running actually have a platform and have to face the people so that they can meet them and see them debate others

This is one of the reasons I changed my mind about Thaksin eventually. Even though he was notorious for trying to deflect questions and evade difficult subjects locally he fronted it out in the international media.

 

After that CNN interview I found a new respect for him, which I never had before he was elected or during his first term in office. 

 

He was eloquent, direct, answered coherently and cleverly... in many ways he showed he really was a politician. 

 

Only Mark Vejj has been on international media since I think, stand to be corrected though. He was educated at the highest levels in England so in some ways expected to be grilled by the international press. 

 

These current guys are just uneducated thugs and gangsters. None of whom could appear on international media because they are simply too thick and arrogant. Some bar girls I know would fare better. 

Edited March 24, 2022 by Mr Meeseeks

[Mr Meeseeks]

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Unfortunately it is the little people that end up paying the ultimate price...sucks really as any of us can just decide to pack up and move on while they can not.

They have to change it themselves. 

 

The Cambodians tried it and are in many ways worse off than they started, one genocide and many wars later. 

[candide]

1 hour ago, possum1931 said:

and the unelected soldier posing as a PM is a professional?????????????????

By "in this department" I meant criminal activities ????

[Sydebolle]

On 3/23/2022 at 10:09 PM, candide said:

Well, he's an amateur in this department compared to some others. Smuggling weapons to the Red Khmer comes to mind.....

Smuggling, did you say smuggling? I saw the convoys in open daylight driving South from Surin across the airtight border into the Khmer territory back in the 80s ....... 

[candide]

31 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

Smuggling, did you say smuggling? I saw the convoys in open daylight driving South from Surin across the airtight border into the Khmer territory back in the 80s ....... 

That's why I said Thamanat was only an amateur! ????

[Mr Meeseeks]

2 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

Smuggling, did you say smuggling? I saw the convoys in open daylight driving South from Surin across the airtight border into the Khmer territory back in the 80s ....... 

Yup.

 

Not to forget Thailand supported the Khmer Rouge militarily on Thai soil and in the UN as the legitimate govt. of Cambodia after they were ousted by the Vietnamese and after the genocide came to light. That was US led of course. 

 

Pol Pot lived in Trat under Thai special forces protection for a time too. 

 

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

[jerrymahoney]

Well he will either be the next PM or he won't be the next PM and what gets written on here will have nothing to do with it.