Pita ready to step aside if his party fails to win senators’ hearts

[webfact]

 

Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat said today (Saturday) that he is ready to step aside and let the Pheu Thai party take the lead in forming the next government, if his party fails, after trying their utmost, to get him selected as prime minister or to amend the Constitution to clip senators’ wings.

 

In the meantime, he urged the Thai people to join him in a nation-wide campaign to win over the hearts and minds of the senators, so they support his prime ministerial candidacy or the Move Forward Party’s constitutional amendment bill, to strip senators of their power to select the prime minister.

 

Pita insists on the party’s obligation to the people to form the government, noting that there is not much time and Thailand cannot move forward without a government.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/pita-ready-to-step-aside-if-his-party-fails-to-win-senators-hearts/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-07-17

 

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[flyingtlger]

Unfortunately, I think Pita will step down...

[Olav Seglem]

Unfortunately, i fear you will be right...

[Zack61]

Unfortunately democracy is dead and buried in Thailand 

[DjSilver]

Everytime there is a qualified new politicin Thailand, the dictatorship will force him/her away.

 

The global leaders need to start and block Thailand from the international trade as long as they do like this.

[HappyExpat57]

If he's not willing to fight for democracy then he is the wrong guy.

[Pink Mist]

A comment involving Royalty has been removed.

[BKKKevin]

16 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

If he's not willing to fight for democracy then he is the wrong guy.

Or a man who chooses to walk away today rather than compromise his principles is the right guy...

[Dogmatix]

Obviously he can’t get elected while the scoundrels in the junta appointed senate still get to vote. But the question is does MFP really want to remain in a coalition that will be constantly manipulated by Thaksin, if Sretha gets elected as a seat warmer for the airhead Thaksin daughter. They have already ceded the speaker job to make way for a notably corrupt former Thaksin flunky posing as an independent in order to get a chance of the premiership.

 

They will not be able to get  any of their major reform pledges done and will be tainted with PT corruption scandals. Far better to slip gracefully into the opposition and let Thaksin alienate his red shirt supporters by teaming up with his old pal Gen Watchman.

[stoner]

weak.

 

if not you then who pita ? you need to be willing to risk it all. sad day for thailand if you step down. will show them they won. 

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat said today (Saturday) that he is ready to step aside and let the Pheu Thai party take the lead in forming the next government, if his party fails, after trying their utmost, to get him selected as prime minister or to amend the Constitution to clip senators’ wings.

He was doomed from the start, even without the "media shares" fiasco hanging over his head.

He was never going to get past the rigged senate.

[h90]

42 minutes ago, DjSilver said:

Everytime there is a qualified new politicin Thailand, the dictatorship will force him/her away.

 

The global leaders need to start and block Thailand from the international trade as long as they do like this.

May I correct.....Everytime there is a new politician in Thailand it turns out that he is as much of a fraud as the others.....

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

In the meantime, he urged the Thai people to join him in a nation-wide campaign to win over the hearts and minds of the senators,

They have no hearts and only a one track mind... futile wish.

Boot them out is the only way.

[TheTightArseTraveller]

If you do a bit of research, this guy is just an American/Big State puppet.

Im not saying change isn’t needed, but I would rather the devil we know that keeps Thailand Thai than a puppet that works to erode Thai culture to replace it with western ‘values’.

 

[h90]

1 minute ago, hotchilli said:

He was doomed from the start, even without the "media shares" fiasco hanging over his head.

He was never going to get past the rigged senate.

he won't pass senate with anti monarchy rhetoric, when they have sworn to uphold monarchy....it was not the media shares it was the 112 (and all the radical rhetoric around it)

[h90]

Just now, TheTightArseTraveller said:

If you do a bit of research, this guy is just an American/Big State puppet.

Im not saying change isn’t needed, but I would rather the devil we know that keeps Thailand Thai than a puppet that works to erode Thai culture to replace it with western ‘values’.

 

Beside the value thing, which I agree. He wants a radical anti Myanmar, anti Cambodia and anti China politics....China is not only the biggest trading partner, but also the biggest source of tourism. On top of that, double the minimum salary, higher taxes and higher energy costs.

That would complete kill the industry.

[HappyExpat57]

42 minutes ago, BKKKevin said:

Or a man who chooses to walk away today rather than compromise his principles is the right guy...

One of his basic principles was to bring democracy to this government. Compromising is backing down. There is NOWHERE on this planet that democracy was just handed over by governments that were NOT democratic.

[reptile91602]

I don't care what Pita stands for. I only know he is very different from the status quo and in a minute he is ready to submit to their decision to step down. Something just doesn't smell right here. It is always fishy in this country.

[Sig]

Looks not all that unlike how Burma runs things, just with more finesse. Or perhaps, I should say, how they ran things before the somewhat recent total dictatorial control and open genocide (which the world stands idly by, barely even paying enough attention to watch, all the while shedding tears and untold billions of dollars over, Ukraine), when the military ruled by keeping 25% military membership of both houses of Parliament (appointed by the Commander-in-Chief of the military), which conveniently needed 75% to pass anything through it. So... good luck getting anything through that the powers-that-be don't want. The people's voice is virtually meaningless, but puts on a good show and keeps the foreign market open and money flowing (for the elite, at any rate).

[Purdey]

If he steps down and is not put behind bars for 20 years he can return after the next election with a landslide. 

Very happy he chooses to avoid violence. I doubt his intentions was to stop Chinese tourism, just perhaps not to give away the country to China. Let's not forget it was China that funded the local communist insurgency here to overthrow the government in the 60-70s.

[Eloquent pilgrim]

47 minutes ago, h90 said:

May I correct.....Everytime there is a new politician in Thailand it turns out that he is as much of a fraud as the others.....

Complete and utter nonsense from you ..... once again 

[ChrisY1]

The state of Thai politicians nowadays. 

Unfortunately, they're not just fighting the elitists and military!

[KhunLA]

Wants the people to win over the hearts & minds of the Senators, he wants to get rid of.

 

Hope he doesn't wonder why they didn't vote for him as PM.

 

"Vote for me & I'll try to end your career"  ...  kind of wonder how he got to where he is today with such insight.

[nikmar]

1 hour ago, Dogmatix said:

Obviously he can’t get elected while the scoundrels in the junta appointed senate still get to vote. But the question is does MFP really want to remain in a coalition that will be constantly manipulated by Thaksin, if Sretha gets elected as a seat warmer for the airhead Thaksin daughter. They have already ceded the speaker job to make way for a notably corrupt former Thaksin flunky posing as an independent in order to get a chance of the premiership.

 

They will not be able to get  any of their major reform pledges done and will be tainted with PT corruption scandals. Far better to slip gracefully into the opposition and let Thaksin alienate his red shirt supporters by teaming up with his old pal Gen Watchman.

exactly - times are changing - slowly. In the next election , things will be much different.

[h90]

32 minutes ago, Eloquent pilgrim said:

Complete and utter nonsense from you ..... once again 

just most got banned because of some kind of fraud, corruption, braking law.....which pretty much proofs it.

[recom273]

55 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

One of his basic principles was to bring democracy to this government. Compromising is backing down. There is NOWHERE on this planet that democracy was just handed over by governments that were NOT democratic.

Totally agree, but maybe the road to democracy may be a bit longer in Thailands case - I think I recall reading somewhere that it may need a two or three step strategy. One of those steps was for Prawit. It can only be a good thing if that step was skipped.

[KhunLA]

29 minutes ago, rwill said:

Thailand is a Kingdom not a Democracy.  It's just set up to give people the feeling they have a say in government.  But they really do not.

So no different than any other country ????

[h90]

1 hour ago, BKKKevin said:

Or a man who chooses to walk away today rather than compromise his principles is the right guy...

But only if the population votes for him in overwhelming amounts. Else in a democracy he must compromise or someone else is doing the job.

[arithai12]

2 hours ago, Zack61 said:

Unfortunately democracy is dead and buried in Thailand 

In the moment that a party incites followers on social media to hate and punish those who have a different opinion, presenting only half of the story to the gullible.

[koolkarl]

Pita isn't too bright for a politician.  He should have maintained that the senate will remain intact and no changes will be made, when Pita was on the election trail.  After he secured the PM job, then make the necessary changes.  But, too late.