Priewpan to join Pheu Thai Monday

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Priewpan to join Pheu Thai Monday

Published: 14 Oct 2012 at 12.33
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Former police chief Priewpan Damapong will officially apply for membership of the Pheu Thai Party on Monday, party spokesman Prompong Nopparit said.

Mr Prompong said Pol Gen Priewpan would be received on arrival at the party's headquarters by Pol Lt-Gen Viroj Pao-in, the acting party leader, at about 1.30pm.

At about 9.30am on Monday morning the Pheu Thai Party will hold a press conference to introduce 23 new members who were Class 10 graduates of the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School.

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jgriff
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Discussion 11 : 15 Oct 2012 at 08.5411
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Former police chief Priewpan Damapong will officially apply for membership of the Pheu Thai Party on Monday, party spokesman Prompong Nopparit said.

Nobody else need apply for the leadership position. It has been decided.
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Discussion 10 : 15 Oct 2012 at 08.0910
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One minute you've got the Peua Thai's red shirt lackeys on stage complaining about military involvement in politics, next minute they're having a ceremonious welcoming of a 23 high ranking army officers into their party, including the former police chief, when most of us still clearly remember how 'tomato' the police were in 2010, not withstanding the fact that he's a relative of the ruling dynasty. There's more MPs with police or army rank in Puea Thai than all the other parties put together, It's chilling. Consolidating power? Fascism comes to mind, as long as you can keep spending tax payers money to buy enough rice growing votes to stay firmly in power, you can call it a democracy.
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Discussion 9 : 15 Oct 2012 at 06.499
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One day join the party, next day become leader if you are a relative.
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Discussion 8 : 14 Oct 2012 at 19.328
Seems like PT is a party for retired army and police top brass. Goodby democracy, welcome facism. Poor Thailand.
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Discussion 7 : 14 Oct 2012 at 18.277
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Everybody gets retired. Police, Military, any other officials, employees of companies, all reach an age where they have either worked enough or can't work enough anymore. Only in politics one has no expirey date. How can a country go forward when its leadership positions are filled with fossiles?
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Discussion 6 : 14 Oct 2012 at 18.146
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"23 new members who were Class 10 graduates of the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School.
They include Adm Rungrat Boonyarattaphan, former defence permanent secretary, Gen Apichart Timsuwan, former director of the National Defence Industry and Energy Centre, Gen Sahachart Pipitkul, former chief of the army's Medical Department, and Pol Lt-Gen Thanakorn Siri-ath, former chief of the Special Branch."

Hey, Red Shirt fans... Tell me again how the Dems are the party of the military... LMAO that you really believed the marketing tricks of Peua Thai.
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Discussion 5 : 14 Oct 2012 at 16.515
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so many police generals now in poltics,who is there let to run the police force ?
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Discussion 4 : 14 Oct 2012 at 16.414
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The Fugitive putting all his pieces into position ...
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Discussion 3 : 14 Oct 2012 at 15.163
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It's disheartening to see so many retired army and police generals go into politics after retiring. It's no secret that many generals, police and army, buy and sell promotions and finish their careers unusually wealthy. Thailand's democratic future looks very bleak with all of these generals who've spent their entire careers in non-democratic institutions. Thai people deserve better than that.
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Discussion 2 : 14 Oct 2012 at 14.392
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Consolidating the dictatorship with more unusually wealthy high-rank military and police. I would love to see an asset declaration from these guys. How many hundreds of millions are they worth?
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