Thailand Election - Teams Run Tight Show For 'Working Woman PM'

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BURNING ISSUE

Teams run tight show for 'working woman PM'

By Chalao Kanchana,

Niphawan Kaewrakmuk

Special to The Nation

It is not easy for businesswoman Yingluck Shinawatra to project an image in her quest to become Thailand's first woman prime minister.

She depends on several teams to assist her in presenting an image as a professional working woman who offers to serve the country.

According to her aides, the teams have been doing everything for her during the election campaign tours - from preparing scripts, designing her look and arranging the people around her. Apart from regularly consulting her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on the phone, these teams are advising her throughout the campaign tour.

Her chief strategist is Chaturon Chaisaeng. The campaign strategy committee's members include former Pheu Thai MPs and former Thai Rak Thai executives.

The strategy team coordinates with a working team, which follows Yingluck on the tour. The strategy team has to make a quick decision on who will accompany Yingluck's campaigning the following day. Sometimes, the campaign team is assembled in the morning just minutes before Yingluck sets out on her campaigning.

Yingluck is also assisted by a forward team. It coordinates with the campaign team, which accompanies her, on who she'll meet during her daily appearances.

The forward team advises Yingluck which topics she should talk to voters about at particular places. The forward team will hear complaints by local villagers and inform Yingluck's campaign team in advance.

According to aides, the campaign team has had to repeatedly remind Yingluck not to get bored as she repeats the same things for people to remember at each campaign rally.

The campaign team evaluates the outcome of the rally on a daily basis - either during the night or in the morning - so that Yingluck can improve her performance at the next rally.

The sources said Yingluck sometimes becomes tired and worn out, but she will not stop. When on the brink of giving up, she calls her brother to consult him.

"Her election campaign tour is not as easy as it might look. Sometimes, she becomes tired and would like to quit, but she cannot stop," an aide recounted.

Her aides help design her look, hairstyle and clothes before going out to meet the people each day.

The sources said the strategy team decided to project Yingluck as a professional working woman so she always wears a white shirt and black trousers on the tour to make it easy for people and media to recognise her.

The strategists also plan for her to be surrounded by young people, deciding who walks with her. Politicians are often kept at a distance as some have a negative image. And being projected as a working woman, she is not allowed to talk about politics. Her strategists have her talk about only the work she would do as PM.

The task of responding to Pheu Thai opponents is left to other candidates. Her every move is directed by her teams as she cannot afford to make a mistake on the political road - or she could be eaten alive.

-- The Nation 2011-06-06

[patjem]

Sure, pretending can't be easy.

[maewrocks]

Not long to go honey and you'll have your victory.

[Buchholz]

And being projected as a working woman, she is not allowed to talk about politics.

Putting the unbelievable absurdity of a political candidate not being allowed to talk about politics aside for just a moment.

Could she at least then talk about her performance as a "working woman"? What specific programs or policies did she institute and oversee while the boss of her brother's companies? What, exactly, sort of "professional" decisions did she make that positively affected their businesses?

Her PR campaign never seems to delve any deeper into her more than a decade as a "professional working woman" other than merely cite her titles in these entities. Does she have any list of specific accomplishments achieved during her career.... other than being a significant shareholder in the companies that have employed her or that she created her own job title for?

[whybother]

And being projected as a working woman, she is not allowed to talk about politics.

Putting the unbelievable absurdity of a political candidate not being allowed to talk about politics aside for just a moment.

Could she at least then talk about her performance as a "working woman"? What specific programs or policies did she institute and oversee while the boss of her brother's companies? What, exactly, sort of "professional" decisions did she make that positively affected their businesses?

Her PR campaign never seems to delve any deeper into her more than a decade as a "professional working woman" other than merely cite her titles in these entities. Does she have any list of specific accomplishments achieved during her career.... other than being a significant shareholder in the companies that have employed her or that she created her own job title for?

She looked after 20 million customers.

[timekeeper]

''According to aides, the campaign team has had to repeatedly remind Yingluck not to get bored as she repeats the same things for people to remember at each campaign rally.''

[timekeeper]

And being projected as a working woman, she is not allowed to talk about politics.

Putting the unbelievable absurdity of a political candidate not being allowed to talk about politics aside for just a moment.

Could she at least then talk about her performance as a "working woman"? What specific programs or policies did she institute and oversee while the boss of her brother's companies? What, exactly, sort of "professional" decisions did she make that positively affected their businesses?

Her PR campaign never seems to delve any deeper into her more than a decade as a "professional working woman" other than merely cite her titles in these entities. Does she have any list of specific accomplishments achieved during her career.... other than being a significant shareholder in the companies that have employed her or that she created her own job title for?

She looked after 20 million customers.

she never looked after me..........

[Bakseedaa]

Not long to go honey and you'll have your victory.

Not long to go honey......

[ozzieovaseas]

And being projected as a working woman, she is not allowed to talk about politics.

Putting the unbelievable absurdity of a political candidate not being allowed to talk about politics aside for just a moment.

Could she at least then talk about her performance as a "working woman"? What specific programs or policies did she institute and oversee while the boss of her brother's companies? What, exactly, sort of "professional" decisions did she make that positively affected their businesses?

Her PR campaign never seems to delve any deeper into her more than a decade as a "professional working woman" other than merely cite her titles in these entities. Does she have any list of specific accomplishments achieved during her career.... other than being a significant shareholder in the companies that have employed her or that she created her own job title for?

She looked after 20 million customers.

Would that be the same customers her brother looked after when he gave them free mobile phones and cheap loans?

[sirchai]

Sure, pretending can't be easy.

The sources said Yingluck sometimes becomes tired and worn out, but she will not stop. When on the brink of giving up, she calls her brother to consult him.

She should really have her first sexual experience without asking her brother what to do in the first night.

Looks like she'd always have to call her weird killer-brother, the criminal.

Edited June 6, 2011 by sirchai

[animatic]

I love a great straight line...

Any 'working woman' with 20 million customers

would be too tired to talk and too worn out to walk.

Of course 'working girl' is code in polite company for prostitute.

in essence, selling your soul and body to another for profit.

It is yet to become clear what her job description in her brothers employe will become. But national sock-puppet is not exactly an enticing position.

Edited June 6, 2011 by animatic

[Buchholz]

Putting the unbelievable absurdity of a political candidate not being allowed to talk about politics aside for just a moment.

Could she at least then talk about her performance as a "working woman"? What specific programs or policies did she institute and oversee while the boss of her brother's companies? What, exactly, sort of "professional" decisions did she make that positively affected their businesses?

Her PR campaign never seems to delve any deeper into her more than a decade as a "professional working woman" other than merely cite her titles in these entities. Does she have any list of specific accomplishments achieved during her career.... other than being a significant shareholder in the companies that have employed her or that she created her own job title for?

She looked after 20 million customers.

Would that be the same customers her brother looked after when he gave them free mobile phones and cheap loans?

Strange comment by her on that as it would seem that after Temasek bought the company and unceremoniously dumped her made-up position, there was never a need for that position to look after 20 million customers and that it was actually other employees in the company, that her brother owned, that looked after their customers.

AIS to abolish president's post

Advanced Info Service will eliminate the president's position that is being vacated by Yingluck Shinawatra, the sister of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, according to a company source.

The source said the decision was made by the Singaporean state investment company Temasek Holdings after taking over AIS's parent company, Shin Corporation.

Ms Yingluck had been the president of AIS since the post was created five years ago on her initiative, the source said.

So we return to the original question of just specifically what did she do at AIS that was so stellar?

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[anterian]

Turning the question around, what has Abhisit got in his background, other than an Oxford degree, which makes him ideally suited for leadership?

I was a teacher, my father was a teacher, my grandfather was a teacher, my sister and brother-in-law are teachers, I grew up in a teaching environment. So I became an electronic engineer , but eventually i became a teacher, not surprisingly a good teacher and was rapidly promoted.

Perhaps Yingluck will do the same in politics as I did in Education, and for similar reasons.

[whybother]

Turning the question around, what has Abhisit got in his background, other than an Oxford degree, which makes him ideally suited for leadership?

I was a teacher, my father was a teacher, my grandfather was a teacher, my sister and brother-in-law are teachers, I grew up in a teaching environment. So I became an electronic engineer , but eventually i became a teacher, not surprisingly a good teacher and was rapidly promoted.

Perhaps Yingluck will do the same in politics as I did in Education, and for similar reasons.

He has a degree in economics, which is important when running a country. His father, who is a doctor, also became a Health minister. And he has 20 years experience in politics, being elected as a constituency MP in 92, 95 and 96, and then as a party list MP in 2001, 2005 and 2007. He was nominated as party leader in 2003, but Banyat was elected. He was elected party leader in 2005 after the election.

I think that gives him pretty good experience to be a leader. Getting a degree in a relevant subject. Working his way up from MP, to party leader, to PM.

Certainly a lot different to someone that got appointed to high level positions in her brother's companies, and has no personal experience in politics, but has suddenly been appointed the PM candidate for PTP.

[Buchholz]

Turning the question around, what has Abhisit got in his background, other than an Oxford degree, which makes him ideally suited for leadership?

I was a teacher, my father was a teacher, my grandfather was a teacher, my sister and brother-in-law are teachers, I grew up in a teaching environment. So I became an electronic engineer , but eventually i became a teacher, not surprisingly a good teacher and was rapidly promoted.

Perhaps Yingluck will do the same in politics as I did in Education, and for similar reasons.

Yingluck's brother, sister, and brother-in-law have all been found participating in electoral fraud and have been banned from the field of politics.

Her niece is also facing banishment for filing false financial statements.

Hopefully, your own family tree fared better in the field of education then hers has in the field of politics.

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Edited June 7, 2011 by Buchholz

[animatic]

Turning the question around, what has Abhisit got in his background, other than an Oxford degree, which makes him ideally suited for leadership?

I was a teacher, my father was a teacher, my grandfather was a teacher, my sister and brother-in-law are teachers, I grew up in a teaching environment. So I became an electronic engineer , but eventually i became a teacher, not surprisingly a good teacher and was rapidly promoted.

Perhaps Yingluck will do the same in politics as I did in Education, and for similar reasons.

He has a degree in economics, which is important when running a country. His father, who is a doctor, also became a Health minister. And he has 20 years experience in politics, being elected as a constituency MP in 92, 95 and 96, and then as a party list MP in 2001, 2005 and 2007. He was nominated as party leader in 2003, but Banyat was elected. He was elected party leader in 2005 after the election.

I think that gives him pretty good experience to be a leader. Getting a degree in a relevant subject. Working his way up from MP, to party leader, to PM.

Certainly a lot different to someone that got appointed to high level positions in her brother's companies, and has no personal experience in politics, but has suddenly been appointed the PM candidate for PTP.

And equally important his degree in economics was an interdisciplinary degree, tying in practical economics with public government management, political science, and social policy aspects, that is ideally tuned for a PM for any nation. You add that to his near 20 years of active, up through the ranks Thailand politics and infighting, add his even temperament, and he is ideally trained for the job. Not so his opponent by any fanciful stretch of the imagination.

Edited June 7, 2011 by animatic

[JAG]

And equally important his degree in economics was an interdisciplinary degree, tying in practical economics with public government management, political science, and social policy aspects, that is ideally tuned for a PM for any nation. You add that to his near 20 years of active, up through the ranks Thailand politics and infighting, add his even temperament, and he is ideally trained for the job. Not so his opponent by any fanciful stretch of the imagination.

just a shame that he can't win elections though isn't it?

[whybother]

just a shame that he can't win elections though isn't it?

You mean all one that he's been involved in as leader?