Photo Essay: Pheu Thai at Bangkok City Pillar Shrine

One of the prime minister candidates for the main opposition Pheu Thai Party, Paethongtarn “Ung-Ing” Shinawatra, visited the Bangkok City Pillar Shrine a day after the House of Representatives was dissolved.

The House was dissolved on Monday and the election is expected to take place in May.

Paethongtarn said her party is ready for the election but her pregnancy meant that she will not be able to travel across provinces at the moment.

She also has yet to clarify whether she will become one of the party’s list-MP candidates or not.

The party has already fielded MP candidates for all 77 provinces and announced most of its major campaign policies.

They have also already announced their new economic team led by the former deputy prime minister in charge of economic affairs during the Thaksin administration, Prommin Lertsuridej.

The party said they will announce all three PM candidates after the House is dissolved but they have yet to do so today.

One of the potential candidates is Srettha, the current economic adviser for Paethongtarn, who accompanied her to the shrine.

Srettha said if the party became government, they will relook at the previous junta’s 20-year national strategy for the country and if there are plans and measures that are providing benefits for some corporates only, they will be revised.

Pheu Thai party leader Chonlanan Srikaew said that one of the first things that the party will do if it became government is to amend the junta-drafted charter to make it more democratic with more public participation.

Additional report by Erich Parpart

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