Suthep voted Asia's Person of the Year 2013

[Lite Beer]

Suthep voted Asia's Person of the Year 2013 on Asia Society website

BANGKOK: -- People's Democratic Reform Committee secretary general Suthep Thaugsuban has been voted Asia's Person of the Year 2013 on the Asia Society website.

Asia Society announced that Thaugsuban attracted 88 percent of the vote, nearly 116,000 votes in total.

Malala Yousafzai, the female education rights activist from Pakistan, was runner-up for the second consecutive year. She earned close to 12,000 votes, 9 percent of the total.

Asia Society is a leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context.

-- The Nation 2014-01-11

[fab4]

Beyond parody.

[catterwell]

Congratulations to Khun Suthep on winning the election.

[casindonet]

Who voted? The public?

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[kkerry]

88% of the vote... shame he isn't a candidate in the upcoming elections...

[keemapoot]

Pretty highly regarded the Asia Society, both in Asia, US, and Europe.

[anselpixel]

Even the AS website people aren't convinced this wasn't a case of organized balloting by his supporters.

At least they believe in some sort of voting.

[Briggsy]

Hmm, was this a facebook campaign?

[napawan28]

Don't care. I want Nobel Prize.

[edwardandtubs]

Asian Society said 116,000 votes but the truth is SIX MILLION votes (verified by Suthep's independent experts).

[Tim1980]

Who voted him? He can't even win enough votes in his own country for many years.

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[ramrod711]

Asia Society is a leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context.

promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships. Definitely describes the man and his cause, good work.

[englishoak]

Asia Society is a leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context.

promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships. Definitely describes the man and his cause, good work.

Definitely the funniest post ive read today

[Bluespunk]

Is this another article by the journalist who thought up the Nobel peace prize piece?

[Prbkk]

Pretty highly regarded the Asia Society, both in Asia, US, and Europe.

an organised campaign....it has been discussed, at length, for some days.

[jaidam]

This is not going to please the frothers and followers of Thaksin, but it does make a lot of sense. Suthep has selflessly put his life on the line in an attempt to bring the essence of democracy to Thai politics. You may not support all of his methods, but by crikey the man has a pair of stones.

Good to see serious observers recognize his sacrifice.

[bangkokheat]

well choke my chickens, suthep has become mr popularity, alongside yinluck miss nobel winner, all within the space of a week, truly is amazing thailand

[FangFerang]

Online balloting is very easy to manipulate. Asia's Person of the Year. Really? In all of Asia...

I am not buying it, renting it, nor leasing it. If I owned it, I would not gift it to my worst enemy....

[edwardandtubs]

This is not going to please the frothers and followers of Thaksin, but it does make a lot of sense. Suthep has selflessly put his life on the line in an attempt to bring the essence of democracy to Thai politics. You may not support all of his methods, but by crikey the man has a pair of stones.

Good to see serious observers recognize his sacrifice.

The comedians are out in force today.

[Publicus]

Here's the Asia Society's account of what happened in the polling.

As of December 31st Suthep had almost zero votes from the time the polling opened December 20th.

Then in the past closing daze [sic] the poll had 165,000 hits from Thailand (not 6 million).

The runnerup, teenager Malala Yousafzai, who has recovered from a shot to the head by the Taliban, had "close to" 12,000 votes which Asia Society says would be enough to win in any normal voting year. (Suthep got almost 116,000 votes which I believe Asia society says is an unprecedentedly large number of votes beyond the typical number of the annual poll's number of reader-voters.)

The sudden surge of voting this year in the final daze of the open online polling shows what Suthep's still anonymous feudal council and its mob supporters will do to voting and elections polling here in Thailand.

http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/how-thailands-suthep-thaugsuban-ran-away-our-person-year-poll

[jomtienjinx2013]

Well done Khun Suthep. A well deserved recognition by a much respected organisation. May you have much success in your mission over the next few days/weeks. Message to the Thaksin lovers 'If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all'.

[Bluespunk]

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here."

Lewis Carroll

[arthurboy]

Sampling is good. This is a sample.

Where's the x factor when you need it?

Know what I mean?

[ginjag]

Well done sir, outrun every other person by a mile a reward for your guts and effort. Where was the PM ???? in the Grand National did she fall at the Canal Turn.???

[rreddin]

Well done Khun Suthep. A well deserved recognition by a much respected organisation. May you have much success in your mission over the next few days/weeks. Message to the Thaksin lovers 'If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all'.

I think that well respected organisation might be a little embarrassed at how easily the voting was rigged. But hey ho, for what it is worth he won. It is a pity he wants to deprive millions of Thais from voting for the candidates of their choice. A leopard does not change his spots so be careful what you wish for, you might get it.

[EricBerg]

He can show it to his grandkids. Now first help to topple the shinaclan, then please retire. Politics need clean people now which Suthep is not.

[arthurboy]

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here."

Lewis Carroll

Thank you so very much.

The voices of reason and sanity are still with us.

[ginjag]

Well done Khun Suthep. A well deserved recognition by a much respected organisation. May you have much success in your mission over the next few days/weeks. Message to the Thaksin lovers 'If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all'.

I think that well respected organisation might be a little embarrassed at how easily the voting was rigged. But hey ho, for what it is worth he won. It is a pity he wants to deprive millions of Thais from voting for the candidates of their choice. A leopard does not change his spots so be careful what you wish for, you might get it.

If he managed to overthrow the regime, then I am with him, if he turned out to be an armhole then then I'm with who ever can get rid of him.

[Kudel]

Asia Society is a leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context.

promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships. Definitely describes the man and his cause, good work.

you are joking or on drugs right didn't some of his boys threaten to march on the us embassy a few weeks ago?

[waza]

Yingluck may be the darling of Issan, but Suthep is Asia's Person of the Year 2013. Now that's gotta sting.