Sparked by comments made by Chalerm Yoobamrung, news media around the world are reporting that Thaksin will return to Thailand on 14 February 2008.
The only time I saw Thaksin in the flesh, his entourage - including heart-throb politico “Sam” Yuranan Pamornmontri - was beseiged by well-wishers carrying roses.
Is this what Chalerm has in mind?
9 responses so far ↓
1 screwtheuselesselection // Dec 22, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Another Thai celebrity who wears his brains between his legs. They are such a bunch of self-serving pansies!
2 Adam Carr // Dec 22, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Can anyone tell me where I can find maps of the new constituency boundaries? By this I mean the constituencies within each province, not the eight PR constituencies. If there is no map, a list of the districts (amphoe) within each province that make up each constituency would do, since Wikipedia has amphoe maps. Please email me at adam@adam-carr.net with any advice on this. (The ECT website is as always impossible to navigate.)
3 Colonel Jeru // Dec 22, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I’ll tie a yellow ribbon at any Suvarnabhumi toilet if fugitive Thaksin returns to face all criminal allegations against him. Will Thaksin return if PPP is not in government??? I doubt it.
4 Michael H. Nelson // Dec 22, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Adam: The maps should be available on the PECs’ web sites, which are accessible through the ECT site at http://www.ect.go.th/thai/service/links.html. For a list of the constituencies in Thai language see http://www.ect.go.th/thai/mp50/mp50_19.pdf
Note that districts have sometimes been devided to belong to different constituencies.
5 Colonel Jeru // Dec 22, 2007 at 9:09 pm
If Andrew Walker can vote, I am almost certain he will vote for PPP knowing Andrew’s softness to the Reds and his disdain of the yellows (which Andrew presumes to be everybody else’s). Fonzi, that ThailandJumpedtheShark, and, I suspect BangkokPundit (who had been giving his rah rah and more rahs for a PPP-ChartThai coalition) too, will vote Samak-Chalerm party.
Republican is definitely a hardcore Thaksin sympathizer and will vote for Chalerm. Who else . . . Teth and Srithanonchai, what are your sympathies sirs?
6 Ladyboy // Dec 23, 2007 at 9:33 am
Col. Jeru -You’re letting them vote? Will you abide by the result?
7 Adam Carr // Dec 23, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Michael, thanks for that. The PEC websites are unfortunately all different, and just as cluttered with fancy graphics as the ECT website, and thus very difficult for the non-Thai reader to navigate. I have found a map of the Bangkok districts, which is a good start. In provinces where the amphoe are not divided between constituencies there is no problem, because I can construct maps from the list you provided in the second link above, using the amphoe maps at Wikipedia. Where the amphoe are divided I am stuck. For instance in Chachoengsao, amphoe Meung Chachoengsao is divided between constituencies 1 and 2, and I can’t find a map at the Chachoengsao PEC website. Perhaps if I produce a list of provinces where I have this problem, someone here who reads Thai can help me navigate the relevant PEC websites?
8 Michael H. Nelson // Dec 23, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Adam: Will send you the map for Chachoengsao and respond on your after the election.
9 Adam Carr // Dec 23, 2007 at 3:55 pm
OK thanks. Someone should explain to Thai website designers that “simpler is better and quicker.”
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