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| All in the family: Fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra has given a big thumbs-up for his youngest sister Yingluck to lead the Puea Thai Party challenge in the coming election - and perhaps become Thailand's first female prime minister. |
12/04/2011
Bangkok Post
Yingluck Shinawatra is expected to be named the Puea Thai Party's No.1 party-list candidate, giving her an opportunity to become the country's first female prime minister.
A Puea Thai source yesterday said the party's key figures had travelled to meet former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the party's main supporter and de facto leader, in Dubai and they had agreed to put Ms Yingluck, Thaksin's youngest sister, as No.1 on the party list and name her as a candidate for the premiership.
The source said Thaksin was pushing for Ms Yingluck as Puea Thai's prime ministerial candidate. However, the source said the candidacy for prime minister is not limited to Ms Yingluck. Candidate numbers 2-10 on the party list also stand an equal chance of being nominated for the premiership if they prove more qualified than Ms Yingluck, the source said.
Key figures expected to be placed highly on Puea Thai's party list include Bannapot Damapong, an adopted brother of Thaksin's ex-wife Potjaman na Pombejra, and Boonklee Plangsiri, the group chairman of Shin Corporation, the source said.
However, the source said the party has to wait for confirmation from Mr Boonklee. If Mr Boonklee refuses to run in the election, the party may approach Niwatthamrong Bunsongphaisarn, vice chairman of Shin Corporation, to stand as party list candidate. The two are considered right-hand men to Thaksin in terms of business.
The source said the party's financiers were also sending their representatives to register as party-list candidates.
The names of all party-list candidates will be finalised after House dissolution.
The source said Thaksin had not yet decided who would be named as party list candidates 2-5.
Those qualified for positions 2-5 on the party list are equally important, the source said, adding that Thaksin suggested they be chosen by drawing lots.
However, the source said the party will use the principle of political seniority to decide who will get which position in the party list.
The source said Puea Thai has also prepared a separate list of MPs from both the constituency system and the list system who will be named as cabinet ministers and cabinet secretary if the party wins the election.
They include Wiroon Techapaiboon, Santi Prompat, Apiwan Wiriyachai, Witthaya Buranasiri, Wicharn Meechainant, Surapong Towijakchaikul, Worawat Uea-apinyakul and Supol Fong-ngam. There are also non-MPs on the list of cabinet ministers. These include Olarn Chaipravat, Pichai Naripthaphan and Pol Lt-Gen Chat Kuldilok.
The source said almost 100 members of the red shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship had been named as party candidates to run in the election.
But after checking their qualifications, the party had found many of them had been disenfranchised and were not eligible to run in the election because they had failed to exercise their voting rights in the most recent local government elections.
Key red shirts such as Jatuporn Prompan and Nattawut Saikua are expected to be ranked between 11 and 20 on the list system, while Korkaew Pikulthong, another key red shirt figure, is expected to be ranked lower than No.20, the source said.
The source said while Thaksin was pushing for Ms Yingluck to be Puea Thai's prime ministerial candidate, the former premier was concerned that some MPs, particularly those in a faction led by list MP Mingkwan Saengsuwan - another possibility for prime minister - might not support Ms Yingluck.
Thaksin, therefore, had ordered Puea Thai MPs who will run in the election to sign resignation letters in advance as a bargaining chip to ensure they will vote for Ms Yingluck to be prime minister after the election, the source said.
10 comments:
So when our country gonna have our first woman prime minister. I wanted to see the Khmer woman lead our country. I'm sicking tired of seeing ah Kwack and his old clans faces all the time thus people are old and dumbest. We needs the new generation to lead and saves our country from the devils enamies Siames and Yuon.
Puea Thai's Prime Ministrial candidate is good looking, unlike Mu Sochua look so ugly and so disgraceful.
4:39 PM
What are you talking about, dumb fuck?
I think you rather have a female porn star as your PM, because you worship them everyday. Jeez
4:39 PM
I wonder do you understand the word “disgraceful”.
You are perfectly fit the character.
Sarun Y.
If she is still single? I'm interested.
5:44 PM
You have to ask her brother first.
Make sure to keep your 'kdor' at home before you go to see him just in case something happens, you might be able to use it later. teehee
Ms.Yingluck Shinawatra(ស្រីសំណាងជិនវឌ្ឍន៍)
Senior Executive
Born June 21,1967
Graduated from Kentucky State University,KY-US with MBA
Contact: yingluck@thaicomfoundation.org
Phone 0-2668-1719-23
This will be interesting to watch if she got elected PM.She will be the first Hakka woman to run the country under,with the probable oddity,Siam first Teocheow woman Sirindhorn to sit on the bloddy Chakri throne as the first Queen(single never married).
Yingluck will be the new found inspiration for the young rich Hakka women to seek more public offices.
By then everything in Thaialnd is under the control of woen from red light district Phat Phong to Government house all the way to the Palace.
Perhaps by then Siam can be restored as the land of smiles of the hot tum yum koong not the yellowed pad thai nor stinky old pad kapik king never smiles.
4:04PM! Man, Woman, Young, and old are worth the same if they have brain, knowledge and compasion!
Not old people STUPID like your parents!!!
Mu Sochua is beautiful. She is our Khmer woman leader. She is beautiful inside out. She is not just beautiful inside out but she is inteligent. She went to the best school in the world: University of California at Berkely! I am proude to have Mu Sochua as our Khmer Woman Leader!
I agree with you.
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