‘Landslide’, ‘Change’, ‘Pillars’, ‘Crisis’: Decoding parties’ final messages to Thai voters

[webfact]

 

By Thai PBS World’s Political Desk

 

Major political parties are now making last-ditch efforts to win as many votes as possible with only days to go before the general election on Sunday.

 

No matter what pollsters are saying, each of them refuses to surrender in their bid to win power at the May 14 national vote. The main contenders in the race are the Pheu Thai and Move Forward parties of the pro-democracy camp and the United Thai Nation, Democrat, Bhumjaithai and Palang Pracharath parties from the conservative camp.

 

Up for grabs on Sunday are a total of 500 MP seats in both the party-list and constituency ballots.

 

“I expect big parties to pull out any trump cards they hold at their last big rallies on May 12,” said Stithorn Thananitichot, director of the Office of Innovation for Democracy at King Prajadhipok’s Institute.

 

Pheu Thai drums up landslide victory

 

For the last leg of its campaign, Thailand’s biggest political party Pheu Thai has chosen to highlight its message, “Without a landslide victory for us, you will be stuck with the 3Ps for four more years”.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/landslide-change-pillars-crisis-decoding-parties-final-messages-to-thai-voters/

 

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[keith101]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Pheu Thai

This party usually wins by offering money or other incentives rather than actual policy to people if they win so more people vote that way . Money talks loud especially to those in Issan where most of the red shirts live . 

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

“Without a landslide victory for us, you will be stuck with the 3Ps for four more years”.

I doubt this very much. They are obviouly concerned about MFP taking large amounts of votes from them but in the end they will form a coalition with MFP. 

[Will B Good]

‘Landslide’, ‘Change’, ‘Pillars’, ‘Crisis’:.......they missed out 'desperation'.......

 

..................only so much room at the trough.