FILE / Nattawut Saikuar addresses the crowd during a demonstration in Bangkok. / AFP

 

Former Pheu Thai MP Nattawut Saikua has returned to the party as the director of the “Pheu Thai family”, whose first assignment is to visit the north-eastern province of Si Sa Ket to recruit new “family” members, with an ambitious aim at a landslide win in this province in the next general election.

 

Nattawut, who is best known for his role as one of the leaders of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) or the Red Shirts, was given a hero’s welcome at a book store event, in Khlong San district of Bangkok today (Wednesday), presided over by Paetongtarn Shinawatra, head of the so called Pheu Thai Family and advisory chair of public participation and innovations for the party.

 

Nattawut said today that a simple election win by the Pheu Thai party is not enough under the present election rules, but the party and its allies must win more than half of the seats in the Lower House to prevent the other camp from forming the government.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/pheu-thai-party-welcomes-nattawut-saikuas-return/

 

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Returned from where? From Jail?

Just now, scorecard said:

Returned from where? From Jail?

From an experimental plastic surgery clinic by the looks of it that went seriously wrong ????

he, and many others, spend over 6 months in jail in 2020 for organising protest outside Prem's residence back in 2007 (that was for alleged Prem's pivotal role in 2006 coup). They got royal pardon from their long, multi-year, sentences.

 

Looks like he is re-joining pheu thai and it means toning down his last year's rhetoric on constitutional and monarchy reform (he did some good talk as a guest speaker at foreign correspondence club sometimes at the end of 2021)

He will be losing his political capital as an independent voice and became again a pay rolled politician. Likely to give him a MP seat, but at cost of losing younger generation vote.   

Edited June 16, 20224 yr by internationalism

Always room for more in the family... but not at the very top levels.

Those positions are already filled.