Pita Looks To Becoming PM For Two Straight Terms

[webfact]

Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat giving his final campaign speech at a Bangkok stadium last night, May 12, 2023. Photo: Naewna

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

 

MOVE FORWARD LEADER PITA Limjaroenrat yesterday (May 12) publicly said he is looking to run the country as prime minister for two straight terms following Sunday’s general election.

 

Addressing an estimated 50,000 Move Forward supporters, mostly Gen Yers and Gen Zers, in the premises of a Bangkok stadium, Pita called for voters nationwide to help make him head of government after the nationwide election.

 

One term of the prime minister-headed executive branch legally lasts four years or is equally correspondent to that of the legislative branch.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/05/13/pita-looks-to-becoming-pm-for-two-straight-terms/

 

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[MrMojoRisin]

Fingers crossed.

[stoner]

anutin is the man.

[zzaa09]

PITA! PITA! PITA!

[sidneybear]

He'll last for six months maximum, before he gets ejected.

[MrMojoRisin]

48 minutes ago, sidneybear said:

He'll last for six months maximum, before he gets ejected.

Them days are gone… consigned to the history books now. Who are you going to cheer for now? Apirat? Good luck with that.

[paddypower]

dont know who I want as PM. certainly someone who destroys the feudal educational system and the power of regional godfather political mafia families who have destroyed this country for far too long. the question is - arent the number of coup-appointed senators stacked against a clean break from the coup makers. ?

[sidneybear]

12 minutes ago, MrMojoRisin said:

Them days are gone… consigned to the history books now. Who are you going to cheer for now? Apirat? Good luck with that.

"This time is different" is ground I've covered before with you and is what people have said all through the years. Time will tell, and it won't take long.

[zzaa09]

1 minute ago, sidneybear said:

"This time is different" is ground I've covered before with you and is what people have said all through the years. Time will tell, and it won't take long.

Yep.

Expect some nasty shenanigans in the near future.

[Pink Mist]

A troll post about food has been removed. Please discuss the OP as written.

[BenStark]

All the best to him, but...................

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/move-forward-party-leaders-political-future-uncertain/

 

Move Forward party leader’s political future uncertain

 

According to the election law, the Election Commission can seek a ruling from the Supreme Court if it finds, before the election, that a candidate is not qualified. The commission can also conduct an investigation into the complaint after the election or before the election results are officially announced.

[Pink Mist]

A Post with Thai script has been removed.  And Not this Time will you troll the OP.

[Eric Loh]

The energy created by Pita and MFP is awe inspiring for the youth voters. He certainly has the qualifications and support to be the Prime Minister but realistically this election is not his time.
 

The Gen X & Y that give him massive support are not enough to give his party the House majority. Both only constitute about 25% of voters. Perhaps the next election when his support base widen that his party stand a better chance to snatch the House majority.
 

The conservative senators will unlikely to give him the votes. These appointed senators will leave next year when their terms expire and very likely the constitution will be amended for elected senators. Perhaps next election, Pita will stand a  better chance. 
 

MFP has campaigned on a progressive platform and may scare some of the mature voters which are the majority. I think they vote for centrist parties.
 

Personally I think PTP will definitely win a majority and K Sreetha will be nominated and be the Prime Minister. He will get some support from the appointed senators.
 

As a member of the business community in Thailand,  I feel he is the best suited Prime Minister candidate to get Thailand back on the economic track. 

 

[ikke1959]

2 hours ago, stoner said:

anutin is the man.

Smoked too much cannabis?? Anutin is the least suitable man... not even to be MP

[stoner]

7 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Smoked too much cannabis?? Anutin is the least suitable man... not even to be MP

ill smoke all of yours if he doesn't become pm. 

[quake]

Nothing will change for the average poor Thai

it will be business as usual, just different faces and uniforms.

maybe in 50-100 years Thailand will change.  and that's just a maybe. 

Land of milk and honey is coming, dream on. 

 

 

 

[couchpotato]

32 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

The energy created by Pita and MFP is awe inspiring for the youth voters. He certainly has the qualifications and support to be the Prime Minister but realistically this election is not his time.
 

The Gen X & Y that give him massive support are not enough to give his party the House majority. Both only constitute about 25% of voters. Perhaps the next election when his support base widen that his party stand a better chance to snatch the House majority.
 

The conservative senators will unlikely to give him the votes. These appointed senators will leave next year when their terms expire and very likely the constitution will be amended for elected senators. Perhaps next election, Pita will stand a  better chance. 
 

MFP has campaigned on a progressive platform and may scare some of the mature voters which are the majority. I think they vote for centrist parties.
 

Personally I think PTP will definitely win a majority and K Sreetha will be nominated and be the Prime Minister. He will get some support from the appointed senators.
 

As a member of the business community in Thailand,  I feel he is the best suited Prime Minister candidate to get Thailand back on the economic track. 

 

A well written piece. Sadly you are right that this election is too early for real change, with the Senators being able to basically nullify the choices of the popular vote, but it definitely does feel as if the younger voters will shake things up this election, and will prevail in the next 1-2 elections. Lets hope.

 

[ikke1959]

16 minutes ago, couchpotato said:

A well written piece. Sadly you are right that this election is too early for real change, with the Senators being able to basically nullify the choices of the popular vote, but it definitely does feel as if the younger voters will shake things up this election, and will prevail in the next 1-2 elections. Lets hope.

 

THis election maybe true.. but it is a start and you have to start first... 50 years nothing has been done...

[h90]

Election commission might tell that he broke the law with the iTV shares. I think he is already history and they need to find the next fraudster. Why is there no clean opposition?

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

MOVE FORWARD LEADER PITA Limjaroenrat yesterday (May 12) publicly said he is looking to run the country as prime minister for two straight terms following Sunday’s general election.

Unless the dinosaurs insist he's removed like they did the last opposition leader.

[MrMojoRisin]

2 hours ago, h90 said:

Election commission might tell that he broke the law with the iTV shares. I think he is already history and they need to find the next fraudster. Why is there no clean opposition?

Because all the clean politicians are either yellow shirts or military meaning all those dastardly crooked politicians can only find a home with the opposition (geez, how dumb are the Thai people to keep voting for crooks when they could instead be voting for the pure saint like figures in the junta).

 

BTW - after Sunday you’ll have to start referring to them as the government as they will no longer be the opposition.

[MrMojoRisin]

5 hours ago, sidneybear said:

"This time is different" is ground I've covered before with you and is what people have said all through the years. Time will tell, and it won't take long.

Indeed, it won’t take long.

[BenStark]

2 hours ago, h90 said:

Election commission might tell that he broke the law with the iTV shares. I think he is already history and they need to find the next fraudster. Why is there no clean opposition?

As clean as the current leader you mean?

 

The one who confiscated 1500 buses from the company that did the zero$ Chinese tours, only to have a family member then start a bus company to cater to those tours?

 

The one who had a family member, with no experience at all in construction, awarded big contracts for building the parliament house?

 

The one who sold a plot of land, worth hundreds of millions of baht, and when asked to clear up a few things answered, don't ask me I forget about already?

[Dr B]

5 hours ago, h90 said:

Election commission might tell that he broke the law with the iTV shares. I think he is already history and they need to find the next fraudster. Why is there no clean opposition?

I believe that it is not that simple that he "broke the law". I read that his Father owned the iTV shares, which were in his will of which Pita is an Executor. I am not at all sure that that is the same as Ownership.

[transam]

9 hours ago, stoner said:

anutin is the man.

Is that the bloke that thinks you are dirty....?    

[stoner]

4 minutes ago, transam said:

Is that the bloke that thinks you are dirty....?    

yes.

[transam]

1 minute ago, stoner said:

yes.

Oh, a club thingy............

[stoner]

Just now, transam said:

Oh, a club thingy............

if you say so. 

[soalbundy]

10 hours ago, paddypower said:

dont know who I want as PM. certainly someone who destroys the feudal educational system and the power of regional godfather political mafia families who have destroyed this country for far too long. the question is - arent the number of coup-appointed senators stacked against a clean break from the coup makers. ?

You want to change the nation's psyche? Even the Fascists in Italy under Mussolini couldn't destroy the Mafia. Greed is human nature and Asia has turned it into a fine art.

I watched a Youtube channel on super prisons in the US and the UK, there are more drugs in prison than on the outside and most providers are the prison warders, money walks the walk.

There are no clean governments anywhere, don't be naive, one doesn't become a PM or president by being an honest, clean, moral person, just the opposite unfortunately, anyone who aspires to government wants power and prestige. Any newbie who has any morals left is soon groomed to be the model that the establishment wants. Revolutions, political or otherwise, have changed nothing, the trappings of power change hands but the establishment still hold the reigns.

[billd766]

8 hours ago, h90 said:

Election commission might tell that he broke the law with the iTV shares. I think he is already history and they need to find the next fraudster. Why is there no clean opposition?

Your question should be more along the lines of 

 

Why are there no clean EC, CC and the alphabet soup agencies?