MFP’s popularity rising as election looms, new poll reveals

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by Mitch Connor

 

The Move Forward Party (MFP) is gaining momentum as Thailand’s General Election approaches, according to a recent pre-election poll conducted by the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA). While the Pheu Thai Party continues to lead in terms of constituency and party-list Members of Parliament (MPs), the MFP is rapidly gaining popularity.

 

NIDA’s third pre-election poll was released on Wednesday, surveying 2,500 people between April 24 and April 28. The poll revealed that the popularity of Pheu Thai’s party-list MPs has decreased, with 37.92% of respondents favouring them, down from 47% one month prior. Conversely, the MFP received 35.36% of the vote for party-list MPs, up from 21.85%, Bangkok Post reported.

A similar trend was observed for constituency MPs, with Pheu Thai’s popularity falling from 47.20% to 38.32%, while the MFP’s rose from 21.20% to 33.96%. When asked about their choice for prime minister, 35.44% of the surveyed individuals supported Pita Limjaroenrat, 29.20% favoured Pheu Thai’s Paetongtarn Shinawatra, and 14.84% chose General Prayut Chan-o-cha from the United Thai Nation (UTN) Party.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/mfps-popularity-rising-as-election-looms-new-poll-reveals

 

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[dinsdale]

It's going to be intertesting but as I have said before 250 lackeys in the senate and always sitting in the wings the military. I can't shake the feeling that troubled times lie ahead.

[thecyclist]

More power to the young generation, and some real change in a country that has massive inequality. The last thing Thailand needs is the fourth oligarchic Shinawatra taking the helm. They would overtake the Kim Jongs dynasty, only 3 of them so far.

[hotchilli]

Interesting times ahead I think with a real swing in the votes.

I just hope the senate don't spoil the party.

[mfd101]

Thai politics warming up.

 

Will real change come to a country still wallowing in the C20th? (and in the 1960s in south Surin). Can anyone actually change anything without authoritarian force? How do you get the small weak 'middle class' to actually think big and look to the rest of the world for new liberal democratic models? How do you stop the thick gluey mess of corruption stopping all progress in all directions?

 

The next 12 or more months promise to be interesting. But they may not be uplifting.

[billd766]

56 minutes ago, thecyclist said:

More power to the young generation, and some real change in a country that has massive inequality. The last thing Thailand needs is the fourth oligarchic Shinawatra taking the helm. They would overtake the Kim Jongs dynasty, only 3 of them so far.

You blame the Shinawatra family, but make no mention of the worst family of all.

 

The military.

 

How many coups and changes of generals has there been since 1932?

 

This is where the current lot want to drive the country back to.

[billd766]

Polls in Thailand don't mean that much.

 

If you don't like the result of this one, just hang around, there will be more polls coming later for you to choose from.

[thecyclist]

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

You blame the Shinawatra family, but make no mention of the worst family of all.

 

The military.

 

How many coups and changes of generals has there been since 1932?

 

This is where the current lot want to drive the country back to.

There is not much to choose between these two" families". While King Thaksin is smart enough to hand out "candies " to ensure reelection , both families are power hungry and have autocratic tendencies. Military coups are sometimes justified. Chatichai Choonhavan's  administration was extremely corrupt [came to be known as the buffet cabinet],even by Thai standards, that a military coup became almost inevitable. If the fascist GOP under the orange clown regains po wer in the US of A, a military takeover would be the only way to save America and the world. A cancer whether in a body or in a society requires drastic solutions.

[billd766]

1 hour ago, thecyclist said:

There is not much to choose between these two" families". While King Thaksin is smart enough to hand out "candies " to ensure reelection , both families are power hungry and have autocratic tendencies. Military coups are sometimes justified. Chatichai Choonhavan's  administration was extremely corrupt [came to be known as the buffet cabinet],even by Thai standards, that a military coup became almost inevitable. If the fascist GOP under the orange clown regains po wer in the US of A, a military takeover would be the only way to save America and the world. A cancer whether in a body or in a society requires drastic solutions.

There is a vast difference between them.

 

Thaksin was freely elected by the people of Thailand, He stood for election a second time and was freely elected by an overall majority of the voter.

 

NO military coup government has ever stood in a free and fair election.

 

They simply made a coup and immediately granted themselves an amnesty.

 

Something Thaksin NEVER did. 

 

quote from your post.

 

"Military coups are sometimes justified".

 

NO military coups are EVER justified.

 

BTW Thaksin Shinawatra was never a king.

 

There was a King Taksin who reigned from 1767 until 1782.

 

 

[greeneking]

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Interesting times ahead I think with a real swing in the votes.

I just hope the senate don't spoil the party.

The Royal Gazette may be reluctant to accept and publish an unwelcome result. There are also 2 significant funerals that could be used to delay matters.

[zzaa09]

3 hours ago, billd766 said:

You blame the Shinawatra family, but make no mention of the worst family of all.

 

The military.

 

How many coups and changes of generals has there been since 1932?

 

This is where the current lot want to drive the country back to.

Unfortunately, the only realistic manner in which to conquer the forever ruling classes is the same manner as they use. 

It would be violent and messy.......the roots require severing and burning away. 

 

Tradition is almost always strenuous to dissolve, as it hangs over society as an emotional collective. 

[zzaa09]

10 minutes ago, greeneking said:

The Royal Gazette may be reluctant to accept and publish an unwelcome result. There are also 2 significant funerals that could be used to delay matters.

I do trust folks are keeping up with such things that could easily distract their dreamy continuum. 

The required approvals and permission hangs heavy. 

[Enoon]

10 hours ago, dinsdale said:

It's going to be intertesting but as I have said before 250 lackeys in the senate and always sitting in the wings the military. I can't shake the feeling that troubled times lie ahead.

 

Unfortunately it's only seriously "troubled times" that will move the country forward.

 

"Tragedy" gave the country its chance to do that peacefully, "Tragedy" determined that it ignored that opportunity.  That is the nature of..........Tragedy.

 

It's been a long time coming.

 

 

Edited May 4, 2023 by Enoon

[Enoon]

2 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

I do trust folks are keeping up with such things that could easily distract their dreamy continuum. 

The required approvals and permission hangs heavy. 

 

From the "Lotus Eater"?

 

There is the "dreamy continuum" that is on its way to oblivion.

 

Don't get too comfortable in your own one.

 

(Keep a bag packed and ready)

 

 

[thecyclist]

3 hours ago, billd766 said:

There is a vast difference between them.

 

Thaksin was freely elected by the people of Thailand, He stood for election a second time and was freely elected by an overall majority of the voter.

 

NO military coup government has ever stood in a free and fair election.

 

They simply made a coup and immediately granted themselves an amnesty.

 

Something Thaksin NEVER did. 

 

quote from your post.

 

"Military coups are sometimes justified".

 

NO military coups are EVER justified.

 

BTW Thaksin Shinawatra was never a king.

 

There was a King Taksin who reigned from 1767 until 1782.

 

 

Yeah, I know .I was sarcastically referring to his arrogance. After he won his second election by a landslide, Mr Square face thought he owned the country. 

Free and fair elections, really. Not even in western countries do we  have genuinely free elections, with the plutocrats owning the media and the politicians, the tentacles of big money are everywhere pulling the strings. In Thailand with all the vote buying even less so. 

Of course, military coups can be justified. If the military in North Korea toppled the Kim dynasty and then opened the country up, that would be a morally justified coup. Any government even a "democratically " elected one, can be rebelled against and overthrown once it turns autocratic. At least that is what John Locke thought, the thinker that most influenced the western Liberal order, a right that is also enshrined in the American constitution.