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The Nation
February 20, 2018
He is also known for his ability to broker agreements between conflicting factions. His main task now is to fix the growing cracks within the party, particularly over the next leader. Pheu Thai sources yesterday dismissed the rumour that Thaksin assigned Pongsak to lead the party. A Bangkok politician who isÃâà...
Khaosod English
January 13, 2018
Furthermore, consider this: In the 2001 general election, Thaksin and Thai Rak Thai party won more than 11 million or 40.6 percent of the popular vote, leading them to capture 248 seats in parliament. In 2005, they won more ... Thailand was ripped into two tribal warring factions. From elections to protests,Ãâà...
Southeast Asia Globe
October 4, 2017
Founding member and former deputy leader of Thaksin Shinawatra's now dissolved Thai Rak Thai party, Sudarat Keyuraphan served variously as health minister ... As a member of the so-called Bangkok faction of Thaksin's supporters, Sudarat has enjoyed a significant level of support from the party elite inÃâà...
East Asia Forum
August 30, 2017
His party Thai Rak Thai introduced modern political techniques into Thailand such as surveys and focus groups, but it is his policies that will prove his more substantial legacy. The universal 30-baht ... The defection of Buriram parliamentarian Newin Chidchob's faction is an example. Newin crossed the floorÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
October 19, 2016
Prem survived two coup attempts by rival factions of the military thanks to the direct intervention of the king. ... Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party defeated the Democrats in the 2001 election by capitalising on the widespread hostility to the IMF's agenda including from sections ofÃâà...
The Nation
February 27, 2016
Named by his father after the notorious Burmese General Ne Win, the former politician from Buri Ram played a major role in the collapse of the Democrat-led government, brought his faction to support Thaksin Shinawatra under the now-defunct Thai Rak Thai Party, before defecting from the party and takingÃâà...
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
October 17, 2013
The Matupum Party counts among its members some Muslim politicians in the Wadah faction who were originally inside Thai Rak Thai, and before that, part of the Chawalit Yongjaiyut's New Aspirations Party. Despite being co-opted into the mainstream Thai polity by people like retired general and Privy Council chair PremÃâà...
The Nation
May 14, 2013
Speculation first focused on former Thai Rak Thai MP Sudarat Keyuraphan, known as the party's Bangkok faction leader, but she declared publicly on Monday that she was devoting herself fully to the restoration of the birthplace of the Lord Buddha in India. Then Sqd Ldr Sita Divari, a member of Sudarat'sÃâà...
International Socialism Journal
September 4, 2008
Instead, the whole of society and, most tragically, the social movements have been entranced by a fight between two factions of the Thai ruling class. On one side are Thai Rak Thai, Thaksin, the Peoples Power Party and the Government; on the opposing side are a loose collection of authoritarian royalists,Ãâà...
