Pheu Thai Announces 310 Aspiring Candidates

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Pheu Thai announces 310 aspiring candidates

By The Nation

The Pheu Thai Party Tuesday held a party meeting to unveil the list of 310 aspiring candidates for direct votes to fill constituency House seats at the next general election, comprising newcomers and incumbemt MPs seeking re-election bids.

The newcomers are mostly individuals with family or political connection to the main coaltion party and the red-shirt movement.

Many see the list as unpressive due to the lack of emminent newcomers to politics.

The aspiring candidates include Kosol Pattama, brother of former foreign minister Noppadon Pattama who is also legal adviser to ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. He is to contest for a House seat from Nakhon Ratchasima.

Pheu Thai deputy spokesman Chirayu Huangsap is slated to run for a House seat from Bangkok.

Chanasak Atthawong, brother of fugitive red-shirt leader Suporn Atthawong, will join the election race in Nakhon Ratchasima.

Lt General Preecha Suwannathat, former deputy secretary general to Thaksin, is going to run for a House seat from Trat.

Sunisa Lertpakawat, writer of "Where Are You?" book based on an interview with Thaksin, will join the race in Chon Buri.

Aim-on Sinthuprai, wife of freed red-shirt leader Nisit Sinthuprai, is to contest the race in Roi Et.

Sarawut Phetphanomporn, son-in-law of Puea Pandin party-list MP Pracha Phromnok, will campaign in Udon Thani.

Phai Lik, son of barred Thai Rak Thai executive Ruangwit Lik, is to run for a House seat from Kamphaeng Phet.

Pheu Thai chairman Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, party leader Yongyuth Wichaidit and MP Chalerm Yoobamrung led the welcoming committee for the aspiring candidates.

Barred executives from Thai Rak Thai and People Power, including Pongthep Thepkanchana, joined a team of panelists to advise aspiring candidates about candidacy preparations and campaigning tactics.

Yongyuth gave a pep talk, vowing that his party would lead the people to bring about change.

"The country is seeing two trains - one led by the Democrats and another by Pheu Thai, and our party's train is gearing for change supported by the people," he said.

Chavalit said his party had to complete the task of advancing democracy since the country was still mired by parliamentary dictatorship.

After the next poll, incoming MPs are obliged to pave way for the democratic rule, he said, arguing that only a formation of national unity government could end the political polarisation.

He said it was too late to expect the Democrats to restore normalcy and put politics back on course. The country's future hinges on Pheu Thai's chance to grab power, he added.

Hinting at amnesty for Thaksin, he said one of the party's five strategies was to allow Thais fled from persecution to return to the motherland.

The other four strategies were to foil any attempts to stage a coup, to secure election victory, to lead the formation of the next coalition designed to forge reconciliation and to uplift the country's stature, he said.

He pledged to assist the red-shirt movement to develop into a sustainable mass organisation working in sync with the party.

-- The Nation 2011-03-01

[Buchholz]

and out of "310 Aspiring Candidates", a staggering percentage of winners.....

Opposition Leader Confident His Party Will Win 300 Seats in Next Election

the Pheu Thai Party will certainly win at least 300 MP seats in the next election

[hyperdimension]

The newcomers are mostly individuals with family or political connection to the main coaltion party and the red-shirt movement.

So do Pheu Thai support nepotism? Is nepotism democratic?

The country's future hinges on Pheu Thai's chance to grab power, he added.

The word "grab" is a very accurate one in this context. It suggests that they want to take power by force.

he said one of the party's five strategies was to allow Thais fled from persecution to return to the motherland.

They are already allowed to return.

He pledged to assist the red-shirt movement to develop into a sustainable mass organisation working in sync with the party.

...in order to "grab" power for Pheu Thai and their leader Thaksin via protests as they have attempted numerous times already. It should now be crystal clear that their April and May 2010 protests calling for House dissolution were not for "democracy" but to "grab" power.

Those of you who have been wallowing in ideologisms of "democracy" and "power to the people" through your expression of support of the red shirt movement are actually supporting, either directly, inadvertently or ignorantly, something that may turn out to be far from your ideological visions.

Edited March 1, 2011 by hyperdimension

[Thai at Heart]

Aspiring, maybe. Inspiring. hmmmmm

[Robby nz]

The Thaksin connection is very strong.

But I suppose it needs to be if their main plank is bringing him back.

[janverbeem]

The country's future hinges on Pheu Thai's chance to grab power, he added.<BR sab="400"><BR sab="401">

This is the most important part in the whole article , however it should read as........................If Pheu Thai gets a chance to grab power the future of this country is destroyed.

[Robby nz]

Thought I remembered seeing this somewhere, from page 2 of todays news

Nopparit said among the candidates will be veteran MPs, including some who moved from the Democrat Party and many well-known faces.

Wonder who the ones "who moved from the Democrat Party" are?

Or was that just another bit of, shall we be charitable and say, miscomunication.

[SomTumTiger]

Best and brightest....or dumb and dumber?

[timekeeper]

310?, really?

are there that many village idiots?