Bangkok
governor election
Mr Banharn made the statement after he had a talk with Mr Kobsak at the party's head office yesterday. There was apparently some misunderstanding after Mr Kobsak was approached by him last month about the possibility of the MP running for Bangkok governor under the party's banner, said the Chart Thai leader. However, the party's working group finally decided against joining the race, seeing that there was very little time left for Chart Thai to get ready for the election scheduled for Aug 29, he said. The party would definitely field its candidates in Bangkok in the next general election due early next year, added Mr Banharn. Mr Kobsak told reporters after the meeting that it had never been his idea in the first place to run for Bangkok governor. However, he thought that the party was serious when he was approached to vie for the post. The MP said the party's working group decided against Chart Thai joining the race for Bangkok governor largely because it believed neither he nor the party itself was ready to jump into the fray. ''A big load has been lifted off my chest. I was a little disappointed though, thinking the party should have done some political activity for the sake of city people,'' said Mr Kobsak, a former chief of the Foreign Affairs Ministry's Economics Department. Mr Banharn yesterday assured that Mr Kobsak would be put on the party's list again in the next general election, but the MP himself said only time would tell. |
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