Thai political party

Political party in Thailand
The Thai Rak Thai Party ( TRT ; Thai : พรรคไทยรักไทย, RTGS : Phak Thai Rak Thai, IPA : [ pʰák tʰaj rák tʰaj ] ; “ Thais Love Thais Party ” ) was a Thai political party founded in 1998. From 2001 to 2006, it was the ruling party under its laminitis, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. During its brief being, Thai Rak Thai won the three general elections it contested. Eight months after a military coup forced Thaksin to remain in exile, the party was dissolved on 30 May 2007 by the Constitutional Tribunal for misdemeanor of electoral laws, with 111 former party members banned from participating in politics for five years. [ 12 ]

Party platform and electoral outcomes [edit ]

Thai Rak Thai was registered on 15 July 1998, by telecommunications entrepreneur Thaksin Shinawatra and 22 early founding members, including Somkid Jatusripitak, Thanong Bidaya, Sudarat Keyuraphan, Purachai Piumsombun, Thammarak Isaragura na Ayuthaya, and Prommin Lertsuridej. The Thai Rak Thai party had a democrat platform, appealing to indebted farmers, who had become indebted as a result of the asian fiscal crisis of 1997, with promises of a potent economic recovery. [ citation needed ] The party besides reached out to rural villages, and struggling businesses. Thai Rak Thai ‘s policies included a 30 baht per hospital visit scheme, an drawn-out debt moratorium for farmers, one million baht microcredit development funds for all rural districts, and the One Tambon One Product project. however, it neglected some rural areas and the southern provinces, since Thaksin openly stated he saw no cause to do anything for areas that did not vote for him. [ citation needed ] Thai Rak Thai won the legislative election of 2001 by a landslide over the govern Democrat Party led by Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai. Forty percentage of elect MPs were freshmen. Thai Rak Thai was able to negotiate a fusion with the New Aspiration Party and a coalition with the Thai Nation Party, resulting in a majority of 325 of 500 seats for the coalition government of Thaksin Shinawatra. [ 13 ] The Thai Rak Thai Party was the foremost political party in Thailand to have been represented by more than half of the members of the House of Representatives. In the 2005 legislative election, the party ‘s candidates were elected to occupy 376 seats of the 500 seats in the House of Representatives, defeating the largest opposition party, the Democrat Party. It won 96 seats. After the election, Thailand ‘s first single party politics was successfully formed. In the invalid elections of April 2006, TRT won 61.6 percentage of the vote and 460 out of 500 seats, many without any resistance, and the lie remaining vacant because the election was boycotted by opposition parties in the first past the post electoral system .

Factions [edit ]

As an amalgam of several different parties, Thai Rak Thai politicians owed their allegiance to different factions. Precise figures on cabal membership do not exist, but estimates of the numeric strength of the major factions are provided below. These numbers are based on the membership of the House of Representatives elected in the 2005 cosmopolitan election, which was dissolved on 24 February 2006 .

After the September 2006 coup [edit ]

Whereabouts of party leaders after the coup [edit ]

On the evening of 19 September 2006, the Thai military seized operate of Bangkok to take over the government. Thaksin Shinawatra was in New York City attending a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Most of the TRT administrator leadership were besides abroad : deputy Premier Surakiart Sathirathai was with Thaksin in New York, Finance Minister Thanong Bidaya was in Singapore attending the annual meet of the World Bank / IMF, Commerce Minister Somkid Jatusripitak was attending the Thai-France Cultural Exhibition in Paris with Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon and HRH Princess Sirindhorn.

several party executives remaining in Thailand were arrested and detained by the military junta. Deputy Prime Minister in charge of national security Chitchai Wannasathit and Defence Minister Thammarak Isaragura na Ayuthaya were in Thailand and were immediately arrested and detained by the military junta. Secretary-General to the Premier Prommin Lertsuridej was besides arrested. natural Resources and Environmental Minister Yongyuth Tiyapairat and Deputy Agriculture Minister Newin Chidchop were ordered to report to the military junta by 21 September. Both reported as ordain and were detained. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] several party executives including Chaturon Chaisang, Phumtham Wechayachai, Suranand Vejjajiva, Veera Musikapong, Party Deputy and Industry Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit and former Social Development and Human Security Minister Watana Muangsook were reported to be in Thailand and free. [ 22 ]

Reactions from party members [edit ]

With Thaksin and winder party executives either abroad or arrested, the reaction of TRT party members was muted and disorganized. In Thaksin ‘s absence, Chaturon Chaisang became the acting party leader. [ 23 ] several former MPs believed the party would be dissolved by the military junta, including former Khon Kaen MP Prajak Kaewklaharn. however, former Udon Thani MP Thirachai Saenkaew, called for the military junta to allow Thaksin to contest the following election, claiming that TRT supporters wanted Thaksin to return to politics. [ 24 ] Former Sakon Nakhon MP Chalermchai Ulankul said that although he and others might be unemployed for about a class, his faction was “ tauten ” and preparing to run in the election next year. “ a long as the Thai Rak Thai Party is not dissolved, we ca n’t say we will move to be under any other party. however, I do n’t know who will continue the TRT. ” many party members were reported to have dropped their party membership in the aftermath of the coup d’etat. These included Somsak Thepsuthin and 100 members of the Wang Nam Yom cabal. It was not clear whether Suriya Jungrungreangkit, another influential member of the faction would besides resign. Sonthaya Kunplome besides was reported to have led 20 members of the Chonburi faction in resigning from the party. fear that the party would be dissolved by the military junta and its members banned from politics fueled the defections. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] On 2 October 2006, Thaksin Shinawatra and his erstwhile deputy, Somkid Jatusripitak, resigned from the Thai Rak Thai Party, [ 27 ] [ 28 ] in all probability ending it as a political impel.

Party adjournment [edit ]

The party ‘s future was in doubt following the military coup d’etat that ousted Thaksin ‘s politics in September 2006. The party was dissolved on 30 May 2007 by the order of the Constitutional Tribunal for trespass of election laws. [ 12 ] [ 29 ] A few high-level party members were found to be directly involved in bribing respective little parties into competing in constituencies that were bases of the early resistance parties to ensure that minimum turnout rules were met in favor of the TRT party and its partners. Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and 110 members of the party were barred from participating in politics for a five-year period, with only eight of 119 charged acquitted. The remaining MPs and members of the party reorganized in the People ‘s Power Party .

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