Pheu Thai dismisses report that Yingluck pushing for sister to lead party

By The Nation

 

Monthathip

 

BANGKOK: -- Pheu Thai secretary-general Phumtham Wechayachai held a press conference on Tuesday to reject speculation that Yingluck Shinawatra had been pushing for her sister, Monthathip, to lead the party.

 

Phumtham said Yingluck was busy with the criminal case against her and had hardly anything to do with the party’s business. 

 

The report that she was pushing for her sister to lead the party was erroneous, he added.

 

Moreover, Monthathip had not shown any interest in politics, he said. 

 

In any case, he stressed, it was too soon to be talking about Pheu Thai’s leadership, and the party would choose an appropriate time to discuss the issue. 

 

The new leader, Phumtham said, would be chosen “to fit the situation”, and the party had plenty of quality people to choose from.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30323228

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-08-09

What a joke.

 

Everyone knows who will choose the leader. Must be spoiled for choice though with all those "quality people" to select from! 

Casting for the next season of Thailand's favourite soap drama started this early?

4 hours ago, webfact said:

In any case, he stressed, it was too soon to be talking about Pheu Thai’s leadership, and the party would choose an appropriate time to discuss the issue. 

 

translation  ...  "we're still awaiting the Skype-call from Dubai" 

 

 

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The new leader, Phumtham said, would be chosen “to fit the situation”, and the party had plenty of quality people to choose from.

 

"But at a wild guess their family-name will probably start with an "S"  ... ", as former-DPM Chalerm might once have said 

 

 

 

" Yingluck was busy with the criminal case against her and had hardly anything to do with the party’s business. "

 

So was she ever its real leader, she certainly appears to have been cast aside now, so much for family-loyalty once her usefulnesss is past !  One might almost feel sorry for YL.

Just now, Ricardo said:

 

translation  ...  "we're still awaiting the Skype-call from Dubai" 

 

 

 

"But at a wild guess their family-name will probably start with an "S"  ... ", as former-DPM Chalerm might once have said 

 

 

 

" Yingluck was busy with the criminal case against her and had hardly anything to do with the party’s business. "

 

So was she ever its real leader, she certainly appears to have been cast aside now, so much for family-loyalty once her usefulnesss is past !  One might almost feel sorry for YL.

 

To be fair, she may still be very useful as a martyr. Er, for the greater good, of course.

2 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

To be fair, she may still be very useful as a martyr. Er, for the greater good, of course.

I thought it was supposed to be  ...  "for the cause of popular democracy" 

 

 

But it's come to something, when PTP admit that the 'peoples' heroine' has " hardly anything to do with the party’s business. " !

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

What a joke.

 

Everyone knows who will choose the leader. Must be spoiled for choice though with all those "quality people" to select from! 

Wouldn't be a joke if they keep winning. So much winning. 

Its always funny how the red supporters on this forum are always calling the democrats ect the elite. While in general their leaders are not drawn from a single family. Its almost if that single family considers themselves born to rule, leaving no room for others. Sounds awfully elitair in my book. Not that the PTP is really democratic.. how can it be with a criminal leading the party from afar and paying the members a salary to do as he says. 

 

But that all does not matter for the faithful red lovers here, they think voting is all what matters... and a convicted criminal paying the salaries of the MP's and controlling it all as his personal party is the most normal thing there is.

29 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Wouldn't be a joke if they keep winning. So much winning. 

PTP's new motto and rallying cry..........................

2 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

PTP's new motto and rallying cry..........................

Hard to deny they do win. 

"the party had plenty of quality people to choose from.", name one

regards worgeordie

She's not as hot as her sister, don't they have someone with better screen presence? It'd make watching the drama more pleasant.

3 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Wouldn't be a joke if they keep winning. So much winning. 

 

Like that good joke when they thought they could put a telephone pole up as candidate and still win the Bangkok governor election. Or the Don Meuang bye-election was so safe some flunky gave up his party list seat to win it.

 

They were good ones too.

 

 

20 hours ago, robblok said:

they think voting is all what matters

To be fair that's a sentiment (albeit falsely) promoted by Prayut as well.

Have elections and show the world that Thailand has restored democracy. Only smoke but no fire of freedom.

 

With an autocratic Constitution stacked against any elected government, armed with a mandatory junta 20-year "reform plan," provisions for a legal military coup, a pro-autocratic Constitutional Court and an autocratic Senate that includes NCPO leadership set to override any undesirable elected government agenda makes a mockery of any Thai election being part of a democratic institution. 

 

If the so-called "red shirts" think voting is all that matters, the autocracy has won permanent control of the Thai people with a very small concession. Prayut and his fellow oligarchy should celebrate the idea that voting is all that matters to making Thailand a democracy. Fool the people once, fool them every time.

On ‎8‎/‎9‎/‎2017 at 4:55 AM, webfact said:

The new leader, Phumtham said, would be chosen “to fit the situation”, and the party had plenty of quality people to choose from.

Really? If that's the case, why have they been using the Shin family?

On 09/08/2017 at 4:58 AM, robblok said:

 

But that all does not matter for the faithful red lovers here, they think voting is all what matters... and a convicted criminal paying the salaries of the MP's and controlling it all as his personal party is the most normal thing there is.

There is no proof this situation exists. Otherwise Pryut would have had the excuse to close it down long ago.

Think this is rather clever of PT to throw up few potential names to keep the junta guessing and the NACC with no target. 

It's so funny how the junta-apologists on this forum get a fresh wind when anything to do with PTP comes up. Many of those posters were proclaiming the current govt to be the "best ever" just days after the coup , presumably on the basis of cleaning up some beach-chair scams and promises to end corruption. While they don't go on with that line so much these days , (embarrassed into silence?),a few still leap back onto the perch to parrot the old furphies about PTP in stories like this.

 

There is no proof this situation exists. Otherwise Pryut would have had the excuse to close it down long ago.

No proof does not mean its not true its easy to make sure the money is not traceable.

Everyone believing that Thaksin is NOT controlling the PTP is living in fantasy land.

It's so funny how the junta-apologists on this forum get a fresh wind when anything to do with PTP comes up. Many of those posters were proclaiming the current govt to be the "best ever" just days after the coup , presumably on the basis of cleaning up some beach-chair scams and promises to end corruption. While they don't go on with that line so much these days , (embarrassed into silence?),a few still leap back onto the perch to parrot the old furphies about PTP in stories like this.
 

You can be against the shins and not agree with all the junta does.

37 minutes ago, robblok said:

No proof does not mean its not true...

This I believe, is the motto ion the Thai courts.

39 minutes ago, robblok said:

You can be against the shins and not agree with all the junta does.

I guess you can, it's a bit silly though, kind of like watching a game of football and hoping both sides lose.

1 hour ago, robblok said:

You can be against the shins and not agree with all the junta does.

You can be against the junta and not agree with everything the shins do

 

On 8/9/2017 at 11:30 AM, worgeordie said:

"the party had plenty of quality people to choose from.", name one

regards worgeordie

Chaturon Chaiseng, in my view. 

On 8/8/2017 at 7:15 PM, Baerboxer said:

What a joke.

 

Everyone knows who will choose the leader.

And until such ingrained consciousness and behind the curtains control is banished from the accepted way of life here, things will always remain the same.

 

Cycle of twisted rhetoric.

On 8/9/2017 at 9:15 AM, Baerboxer said:

What a joke.

Everyone knows who will choose the leader. Must be spoiled for choice though with all those "quality people" to select from! 

What's the problem with that.

Whichever leader is chosen they remain absolutely powerless without gaining the support of a majority off Thais via an election.

If the people think the chosen leader lacks "quality" they simply won't vote for them and said leader will remain powerless.

No jokes here.

21 hours ago, Prbkk said:

It's so funny how the junta-apologists on this forum get a fresh wind when anything to do with PTP comes up. Many of those posters were proclaiming the current govt to be the "best ever" just days after the coup , presumably on the basis of cleaning up some beach-chair scams and promises to end corruption. While they don't go on with that line so much these days , (embarrassed into silence?),a few still leap back onto the perch to parrot the old furphies about PTP in stories like this.

 

All this aside, I find it most odd that supposedly connected, reasoned, and intelligent folk can acquire a deep and steadfast Junta-apologist manner about themselves - in a rather creepy loyalist stance.

 

All to interesting to examine the whys and wherefores of their state.

11 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

All this aside, I find it most odd that supposedly connected, reasoned, and intelligent folk can acquire a deep and steadfast Junta-apologist manner about themselves - in a rather creepy loyalist stance.

 

All to interesting to examine the whys and wherefores of their state.

3 hours ago, robblok said:

You can be against the shins and not agree with all the junta does.

 

1 hour ago, tomta said:

You can be against the junta and not agree with everything the shins do

 

You can be against some of the things the junta does, and against some of the things TRT/PPP/PTP did  ...

 

2 hours ago, Yinglove said:

I guess you can, it's a bit silly though, kind of like watching a game of football and hoping both sides lose.

 

...  and still hope that democracy and freedom eventually win !

After all the blah blah woof woof about "democracy" etc ...the current administration is probably the best(for most Thais) in Thailand's history.