Thaksin Shinawatra, in his lengthy phone-in to the red-shirts in Udon Thani last night effectively kicked off his election campaign with his series of populist planks. He said “all polls” say Pheau Thai Party will win more than half of the seats. He declared that he will make his election platform public on April 24. […]
Yingluck Shinawatra, the youngest sibling of self-exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, has emerged as a strong candidate for the premiership among the key figures of the opposition Pheu Thai Party. The 43-year-old business executive and mother appears to have the backing of veteran politician Chalerm Yoobamrung and her brother Thaksin, who is believed to be […]
Former Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat on Tuesday revealed that his brother-in-law Thaksin Shinawatra would assist in the campaigning for Pheu Thai Party to form the next government. “Thaksin will help to the fullest extent of his ability to enable Pheu Thai to form a single-party government,” he said. The Nation
Party leader may not be contender for top govt job, in a ploy to survive another dissolution The opposition Pheu Thai Party will announce its candidate for the next prime minister as soon as the government calls for dissolution of the House of Representatives, fugitive ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra said in a message on Sunday night. […]
At the censure debate last night, opposition MPs accused PM Abhisit Vejjajiva of ordering the killing of red-shirt protesters last year as well as orchestrating the arson attack on Central World to justify the crackdown. Abhisit and his deputy, Suthep Thaugsuban, denied the charges and instead put the blame on the red shirts. “If I […]
The ongoing censure debate doesn’t just sound like an election campaign. It is an election campaign. And that will be underlined today when the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the opposition Pheu Thai Party face off over the contentious issue of who “massacred” red-shirt protesters and who torched Central World and other buildings […]
On Friday, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced he would dissolve Parliament in the first week of May, paving the way for Thailand’s next general election, to take place in June or July. Last year’s red shirt protests, which resulted in the deaths of 91 people and injuries to at least 2,000, aimed to force Abhisit […]
The red-shirt movement will gear for expanding mass supports in order to sway the outcome of the upcoming elections, red leader Natthawut Saikua said on Tuesday. “The red shirts will set up their network designed for the elections,” he said, hinting at building up the mass movement to support the Pheu Thai Party. Natthawut said […]
