By Achara Deboonme
The Nation
The July 3 election turned up with a convincing victory for Pheu Thai, but the party’s strategist is convinced the road from now on will be bumpier due to high public expectations amid deep social division.
Still, with confidence that 70 per cent of election promises would be delivered, the strategist who asked for anonymity has convinced himself the party would definitely remain in power for years despite its “dark side” influences.
“The first battle will be on how to prevent Yingluck (Shinawatra, the younger sister of fugitive prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra) from being prime minister,” he said, referring to the accusation of perjury and negative rumours on her birth history.
“If she rides through this and becomes prime minister, another battle could be ignited by the border conflict. We start to hear threats that if our troops are withdrawn from the conflict area along the Thai-Cambodian border, protesters will gather around Government House. This is [even if] the withdrawal is an order from The Hague,” he said, shaking his head disapprovingly.
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