Pita Tops PM Pick in Latest Nida Poll

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK, May 3 (TNA) –  Leader of the Move Forward Party Pita Limjaroenrat becomes the top choice for the prime minister in the latest poll by the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida).

 

The opinion poll was conducted between April 24-28 among 2,500 people aged over 18 years old from various educational background, occupations and incomes nationwide.

 

Asked who they would support to be the prime minister in the upcoming election, most respondents or 35.44 % chose Pita of the Move Forward Party, followed by Paetongtarn of the Pheu Thai Party (29.20% ) and Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha of the United Thai Nation Party (14.81%).

 

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[MrMojoRisin]

Over 70% of those polled want either PT or MF as their party list and constituency MP.

Prayuth is about to be on the receiving end of an epic ass kicking.

[dinsdale]

Prayut would have absolutely everyone working on how to get rid of him without actually taking him out.

[candide]

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Prayut would have absolutely everyone working on how to get rid of him without actually taking him out.

Not only Prayut. Move forward is the biggest threat for the yellow-green network, because they now get the votes from the Bangkok middle-class people, who used to be core supporters of affiliated parties and movements, such as the Dems, PDRC, and PP.

[zzaa09]

27 minutes ago, candide said:

Not only Prayut. Move forward is the biggest threat for the yellow-green network, because they now get the votes from the Bangkok middle-class people, who used to be core supporters of affiliated parties and movements, such as the Dems, PDRC, and PP.

Nonetheless, way overdue for a refreshing change - if there is such a thing. 

More importantly, MV requires to secure a majority [or friendly associated] in both houses. Cleansing itself from the traditional Old Guard. A task that is easier said than done. 

 

After all is said and done - still quite skeptical and suspicious about Thai political affairs. 

 

[Pink Mist]

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Please do not attempt to hijack the OP which is: Pita Tops PM Pick in Latest Nida Poll

 

[bignok]

Party policies would decide these poll results though so on topic I would think. 450 baht minimum wage, same sex marriages are 2 policies.

[dinsdale]

Pita tops this poll because the party is seen as progressive. People want change especially the youth. Their platform is publically available and openly discussed. What changes they want is why Pita is topping the poll for PM in Thailand. Change is wanted especially by the youth but will it be stopped by those who want the status quo? Only the future will tell. 

[bignok]

Do a deal with Pheu Thai be a shoe in. 

 

What about farang policies? 

[dinsdale]

31 minutes ago, Pink Mist said:

Please do not attempt to hijack the OP which is: Pita Tops PM Pick in Latest Nida Poll

Fair enough but surely the parties policies are among the reasons he's looking like the people's favourite for PM. 

[zzaa09]

27 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Pita tops this poll because the party is seen as progressive. People want change especially the youth. Their platform is publically available and openly discussed. What changes they want is why Pita is topping the poll for PM in Thailand. Change is wanted especially by the youth but will it be stopped by those who want the status quo? Only the future will tell. 

Again.....what is progressive and how might it be define regarding policies for the commons?

[ikke1959]

i hope it will be true and he will become the PM.... But other forces are probably preventing it... too risky

[Adumbration]

The participants in the Poll are going to be sorely dissapointed when Anutin is appointed Prime Minister.  

 

All of these articles are just white noise.

 

Everyone is forgetting who is really in charge of the election outcome.

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Asked who they would support to be the prime minister in the upcoming election,

Sad they don't really get to choose the next PM, 

[scorecard]

13 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Nonetheless, way overdue for a refreshing change - if there is such a thing. 

More importantly, MV requires to secure a majority [or friendly associated] in both houses. Cleansing itself from the traditional Old Guard. A task that is easier said than done. 

 

After all is said and done - still quite skeptical and suspicious about Thai political affairs. 

 

Nice points. The item whch still worries me is the very large number of military appointees to the senate. combined they have a lot of power. 

 

However if Khun Pita gets a big clear majority would the military use their power or would they be too embarrassed to use their power to block khun Pita.

 

Seems to me, unfortunately the military glory will still dominate.

Edited May 4, 2023 by scorecard

[herfiehandbag]

15 hours ago, MrMojoRisin said:

Over 70% of those polled want either PT or MF as their party list and constituency MP.

Prayuth is about to be on the receiving end of an epic ass kicking.

Only when the initial results are considered.

 

By the time the votes have been recounted, adjudicated, interpreted, reallocated, new party lists rules applied, the courts and Electoral Commission had their say, and of course the Senate weighed in, we will discover, just as last time, that a grateful nation has entrusted Prayut with another four years in post!

 

That may of course take a couple of months, but don't worry, in the meantime he remains as caretaker PM.

Edited May 4, 2023 by herfiehandbag

[bamnutsak]

Given that the populace does not vote for the PM this sort of poll is useless, if not worse. It's more of a beauty contest, which I'll say Thais excel at producing, whether at the local temple or on the World's stage.

 

The arranged mechanism between the voters and the resulting "government" and PM, is purposefully engineered so as to be 'malleable'. Think sauage production. Throw in any schmoe who can file a complaint against a party or member, an Election Commission, and a Constitutional Court, and you have many "hands" on the levers.

 

 

 

 

[herfiehandbag]

12 hours ago, bignok said:

Do a deal with Pheu Thai be a shoe in. 

 

What about farang policies? 

Does either, or in fact any party have any farang policies?

[zzaa09]

20 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Nice points. The item whch still worries me is the very large number of military appointees to the senate. combined they have a lot of power. 

 

However if Khun Pita gets a big clear majority would the military use their power or would they be too embarrassed to use their power to block khun Pita.

 

Seems to me, unfortunately the military glory will still dominate.

That might be my guess as well...

They're not gonna roll over that easily.

[zzaa09]

6 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

Does either, or in fact any party have any farang policies?

Why should they. 

It's not a Farang space

It's a Thai space.

 

Farang aren't that terribly special too be concerned about, anyway.

Don't like the policies. You can always leave.

[herfiehandbag]

Just now, zzaa09 said:

Why should they. 

It's not a Farang space

It's a Thai space.

 

Farang aren't that terribly special too be concerned about, anyway.

Don't like the policies. You can always leave.

I think you are rather making the same point as me.

 

For both the electorate and the contestants, farangs, their likes, dislikes and aspirations are simply irrelevant.

[sammieuk1]

Great news now what could possibly go wrong ????

[CharlieH]

Reported flame ???? post removed.

 

Keep it civil please. 

[Adumbration]

1 hour ago, bamnutsak said:

Given that the populace does not vote for the PM this sort of poll is useless, if not worse. It's more of a beauty contest, which I'll say Thais excel at producing, whether at the local temple or on the World's stage.

 

The arranged mechanism between the voters and the resulting "government" and PM, is purposefully engineered so as to be 'malleable'. Think sauage production. Throw in any schmoe who can file a complaint against a party or member, an Election Commission, and a Constitutional Court, and you have many "hands" on the levers.

 

 

 

 

There is only one person who decides who the next PM will be.

[AgMech Cowboy]

What a bunch of BS comments. You folks 'think' you know all about Thai politics, but trust me, Jon Falang (substituted for Snow), "you know nothing".

[Pink Mist]

An unsupported Misinformation ost and an Off Topic post have been removed.

[bamnutsak]

1 hour ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

What a bunch of BS comments. You folks 'think' you know all about Thai politics, but trust me, Jon Falang (substituted for Snow), "you know nothing".

Are you able to share your wisdom with us?

 

Folks who say "trust me" are usually compensating, and deserve anything but.

[mrfill]

Does Pita live up to his acronym?

[zzaa09]

12 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Sad they don't really get to choose the next PM, 

Originally designed to mirror a British Parliamentary party [and indirect Patronage] representation system - it went askew just recently [this last decade or two] to resemble a highly oligarchical managed system that is set to favour the usual ruling classes - changed and revamped, here and there, to maintain this status quo. 

 

Whatever it has become, it's certainly not balanced or anything resembling democratic. 

Over many decades [from the 1950s/1960s], this rather unusual, and uniquely Thai, system has never been tested - as we jump from one coup and forced military rule to another. 

[still kicking]

I talked today to many Thais different age groups who voted already and nearly all voted for MVP