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Head of the “Pheu Thai Family”, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, said Sunday that she is ready to stand as the party’s candidate for prime minister in the general elections and that the Pheu Thai Party will only work with parties which embrace democracy.

 

Responding to a reporter’s question about her readiness to be the party’s candidate, on the campaign trail in the north-eastern province of Udon Thani, Paetongtarn is quoted to have said “I am ready because we have come to this point to win in a landslide, to realise our policies which are promised to the people. Policies to improve the lives of the people.”

 

She also said, however, that she is ready to back off “if there are people who are more appropriate.”

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/paetongtarn-shinawatra-says-she-is-ready-to-be-pheu-thais-pm-candidate/

 

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As instructed. 

Old 'Tony ' Shinawatra will not rest until every member of his family are destroyed or confined to exile like himself and his sister.  Why don't you come back and face the music and serve your prison sentence.Otherwise shut up.

You are coercing  your remaining family members to enter politics with the selfish  end goal of a pardon for yourself.

I'm not in favour of Prayut, Prawit or Anutin... but after those are voted out who else is a good candidate that will do the right thing for Thailand?

This will be interesting the people don't like the generals running the country let's see what happens if they win first anything would be better than this lot surely

The Shinawatra oligarchy....

31 minutes ago, flyingtlger said:

The Shinawatra oligarchy....

Oligarchy - a small group of people who have control of a country.

 

You are clearly wrong.

 

The Shinawatra’s democracy!

 

 

58 minutes ago, jippytum said:

Old 'Tony ' Shinawatra will not rest until every member of his family are destroyed or confined to exile like himself and his sister.  Why don't you come back and face the music and serve your prison sentence.Otherwise shut up.

You are coercing  your remaining family members to enter politics with the selfish  end goal of a pardon for yourself.

Old Tony Shinawatra’s will not rest until democracy is restored. The reasons may be selfish but that does not mean the outcome is any less desirable.

1 hour ago, Artisi said:

As instructed. 

From such a vast distance, do you really think you’re in a position to be judging her character?

She may very well be a patriotic and caring individual who is willing to do the work and sacrifice the easy life for a better future for her fellow country men and women.

 

If you can’t be rational at least don’t be needlessly nasty.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Head of the “Pheu Thai Family”, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, said Sunday that she is ready to stand as the party’s candidate for prime minister

70 million Thai people can vote for you but you will never be PM - what's up with that ?

 

someone the people never voted for will be PM and all the DPM's and that has uprising written all over it....................Thai democracy the biggest joke on the planet ............... who voted for any of them ?

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I'm not in favour of Prayut, Prawit or Anutin... but after those are voted out who else is a good candidate that will do the right thing for Thailand?

The simple truth is that the electorate must make that choice. Installing a working democratic system is not done in one election, but takes two or three election cycles. Before it can be said to have been achieved candidates and their governments must be installed, and then judged on their performance, reselected or rejected, by the electors. No one else, not judges, not demonstrators and civil disobedience, and most certainly not the military.

3 hours ago, Artisi said:

As instructed. 

And lacking in charisma and charm from the look of her - unlike the older sister, Yingluck

Good decision. It's about time to chase away the undemocratic dinosaurs and to restore hope.

There must be a irresistible allure to this Thai PM position, they all start out denying they want the job, and then can't wait to place their behind in that chair..., must come with very special cushions indeed.

28 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

There must be a irresistible allure to this Thai PM position, they all start out denying they want the job, and then can't wait to place their behind in that chair..., must come with very special cushions indeed.

A privileged place at the trough.  Why do you think Prayhoot wants to continue on?  I'd think he has plans to stay in power after his 'final' two years are up.

Edited January 16, 20233 yr by lujanit

3 hours ago, jippytum said:

Old 'Tony ' Shinawatra will not rest until every member of his family are destroyed or confined to exile like himself and his sister.  Why don't you come back and face the music and serve your prison sentence.Otherwise shut up.

You are coercing  your remaining family members to enter politics with the selfish  end goal of a pardon for yourself.

How about we let the Thai people decide via votes instead of illegal midnight coups. 

 

Prison sentence handed down by the junta judges?  How about the coup crew face the music for overthrowing the duly elected government years ago.

2 hours ago, MrMojoRisin said:

From such a vast distance, do you really think you’re in a position to be judging her character?

She may very well be a patriotic and caring individual who is willing to do the work and sacrifice the easy life for a better future for her fellow country men and women.

 

If you can’t be rational at least don’t be needlessly nasty.

and what distance is that?

4 hours ago, jippytum said:

Old 'Tony ' Shinawatra will not rest until every member of his family are destroyed or confined to exile like himself and his sister.  Why don't you come back and face the music and serve your prison sentence.Otherwise shut up.

You are coercing  your remaining family members to enter politics with the selfish  end goal of a pardon for yourself.

Old Tony and sister were legitimately elected overwhelmingly by the people and were forced into exile by military coups and sympathetic courts. Why don't the the regime respect the wishes of the people. If the elected government is unfit for office, let the people vote them out; it is not the military responsibility.  

7 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Old Tony and sister were legitimately elected overwhelmingly by the people and were forced into exile by military coups and sympathetic courts. Why don't the the regime respect the wishes of the people. If the elected government is unfit for office, let the people vote them out; it is not the military responsibility.  

The people did remove both thaksins.  They dit by protest.  The thing people need to do is learn about democracy.  

 

The other thing is that people need to get educated about election.  Until that is done the people outside bkk and cities will follow like sheep.

 

Pat has made promises that it can not do again.  Once the young people find out that there is never going to be a 25k guaranteed salary and people in the country do not get the 600 an hour the cycle will start over again.

30 minutes ago, Artisi said:

and what distance is that?

Ignorance.

51 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

The people did remove both thaksins.  They dit by protest.  The thing people need to do is learn about democracy.  

 

The other thing is that people need to get educated about election.  Until that is done the people outside bkk and cities will follow like sheep.

 

Pat has made promises that it can not do again.  Once the young people find out that there is never going to be a 25k guaranteed salary and people in the country do not get the 600 an hour the cycle will start over again.

The protests were not a country wide popular uprising but concentrated only in Bangkok. The scattered and rather small protests should not warrant the military to stage a takeover of the government unless they were choreographed for that eventualities. Even if the protests were intense, another election should be held. That is democracy. 

 

All Thais have the right to vote which is the fundamental values of equality. Educated middle class and elites would like to take away people's right to vote claiming there are the only one that are educated in election. Highly educated people can also be selfish and take advantage of society and that they are better educated and wealthier than province folks. Their views are unacceptable and undemocratic. 

 

Paetongtarn promise of minimum wage increase is following the policies of his previous party when they were the government. Pheu Thai Party has honoured their election pledge to hike minimum wage in 2012 from 144 B to 215 B in some province and lifted to a flat rate of 300 B in Bangkok. There were the usual whining and crying from the business owners of doomsday. Fast forward today, life in the business world goes on adapting to the wage increase. My view is that the wage increase in steps are good for Thailand and for the eradication of poverty. 

Edited January 16, 20233 yr by Eric Loh
wrong words

52 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

The people did remove both thaksins.  They dit by protest.  

The old elite did remove both Thaksins. They did it by using guns.

yes, she is ready to do what ever daddy tells her to, what a joke, dumb as dog doo, just another shin looking at how much she can make out of it and doing exactly what she is told, time for thais to have an intellectual PM that will do what is right for the country and not themselves and their family/friends

Looks like once again the election will probably yield a result of the "the unfathomably rich being replaced by the unfathomably richer"

2 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

The people did remove both thaksins.  They dit by protest.  The thing people need to do is learn about democracy

The people did not remove either Thaksin. Some people (by no means a majority) caused so much trouble that both Shinawatra led governments decided to call elections, to settle the matter. When it became evident that the Shinawatra parties were on track to win those elections the military staged coups.

 

After the first of those coups, when the military allowed an election, the Shinawatra party won. They were effectively removed from office by the military, who aided and facilitated violent demonstrations by the same minority; and replaced by the party which the military had hoped would win the election. When the Shinawatra faction protested in turn the military crushed them ruthlessly.  

 

The people have learned the lesson, in this country any nuanced democracy is pointless. They need to win decisively, and then not tolerate interventions. That is the lesson of the last two decades.

4 minutes ago, MRToMRT said:

Looks like once again the election will probably yield a result of the "the unfathomably rich being replaced by the unfathomably richer"

Followed by the inevitable coup.

3 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

The people did remove both thaksins.  They dit by protest.  The thing people need to do is learn about democracy.  

 

The other thing is that people need to get educated about election.  Until that is done the people outside bkk and cities will follow like sheep.

 

Pat has made promises that it can not do again.  Once the young people find out that there is never going to be a 25k guaranteed salary and people in the country do not get the 600 an hour the cycle will start over again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Thailand

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yingluck_Shinawatra#2013/14_Opposition_protests,_supreme_court_impeachment_and_coup

Edited January 16, 20233 yr by KhunLA

4 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

The people did remove both thaksins.  They dit by protest.  The thing people need to do is learn about democracy.  

 

The other thing is that people need to get educated about election.  Until that is done the people outside bkk and cities will follow like sheep.

 

Pat has made promises that it can not do again.  Once the young people find out that there is never going to be a 25k guaranteed salary and people in the country do not get the 600 an hour the cycle will start over again.

1. A very small minority of people supported the removal of Yingluck and a slightly larger minority of people supported the removal of Thaksin. Had either of these events been popular then elections, rather than coups, would have sufficed to achieve the desired outcomes.

 

2. People, all people, whether they be so called uneducated country bumpkins or sophisticated urbanites are all very very aware of their own self interests. Everyone votes, not for the greater good, but for self interest - there are no sheep and no excuses for denying democracy.

 

3. If “Pat” doesn’t deliver on her promises after she wins, then she’ll have to answer to the voters next election. If there is an acceptable alternative option, then out of self interest voters will withdraw their support and “Pat” will be out on her ass. No coups required.

Edited January 16, 20233 yr by MrMojoRisin

How interesting indeed. 

Two questions:
is the electorate ready for all those handpicked candidates; it could be that none of those proposed sweethearts of Thai politics will ever make it again
all those populistic election promises, i.e. wage increases, adding dozens of public holidays and other goodies so graciously granted by the government; does the electorate know that THEY pay for all this? The government can only spend money it got/took from somewhere else and the private sector is laying flat already with trillions of losses carried forward from coronaphobian ideas and other governmental wisdom! 

3 hours ago, seajae said:

yes, she is ready to do what ever daddy tells her to, what a joke, dumb as dog doo, just another shin looking at how much she can make out of it and doing exactly what she is told, time for thais to have an intellectual PM that will do what is right for the country and not themselves and their family/friends

Part of of forthcoming joy for those of us that support freedom and democracy is knowing that the keyboard warrior junta fanboys, who have been smugly cheering on every crime and misdeed the Generals have visited upon the Thai people for the past two decades, are going to be spending a great deal of time living under another Shinawatra’s Prime Ministership where day by day they will have to witness the quality of life for the majority of Thais improving under a competent elected government whilst they feebly attempt to deny ever loving the anti democratic forces as the mountain of theft and corruption committed by “the good people” is exposed by long overdue investigations.

 

I am giddy with anticipation.