Former Pattaya Deputy Mayor Poramase Ngampiches to run for Pattaya Mayor next election

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By Nop Meechukhun

 

Pattaya, Chonburi –  Former Pattaya Deputy Mayor and vice-minister for culture Poramase Ngampiches yesterday, March 23rd, announced a run for Pattaya Mayor on behalf of the “Rao Rak Pattaya” group in the upcoming election in May.

 

Currently appointed Pattaya Mayor Sonthaya Khunplume, in the role since September of 2018, who served his last day today March 24th, has decided not to run for election, however, Poramase is a member of the same political group and is campaigning on a platform to continue and finish the work Sonthaya started.

 

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With his work experience in both national and local government, Poramase revealed that he was not pressured to become a candidate and was ready to solve Pattaya people’s problems, especially on the issue of earning a proper living after suffering from Covid-19 hardship for two years. Poramase, like his competition, is well aware that the topic of Covid restrictions and loss of almost all tourism revenue is a major one for Pattaya and that any successful candidate will need to explain how the city will return to “normality” and fully reopen to tourism, both domestic and foreign.

 

He said: “The first thing that I would solve was the issue of how Pattaya people could earn a living again. In the past two years, the city of Pattaya became dry. It was almost unlike the same tourist attraction that had previously generated more than 300 billion baht in revenue per year, was the 19th most visited city in the world, and had ten million foreign tourists and seven million domestic in 2019. 

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/03/24/former-pattaya-deputy-mayor-poramase-ngampiches-to-run-for-pattaya-mayor-next-election/

 

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[bradiston]

Is this a proper transliteration of his name? Ngampiches as they have it should read Ngam Piset, surely? Special Beauty. งามพิเศษ. But I can't find any reference in Thai. He's the outgoing mayor's younger brother's (that's Ittiphol, meaning Influence, ผู้มีอิทธิพล, a person of influence) assistant. The outgoing mayor was appointed personally by Prayut back in 2018. Unelected. No taxation without representation!

[hotchilli]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Former Pattaya Deputy Mayor and vice-minister for culture Poramase Ngampiches yesterday, March 23rd, announced a run for Pattaya Mayor on behalf of the “Rao Rak Pattaya” group in the upcoming election in May.

Challengers enter the ring, gonna be a good scrap this one.