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Candidates campaign on flood issues

Published: 8 Feb 2013 at 16.53
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The capital city will never again be flooded if he is elected, the Pheu Thai Party's candidate for Bangkok governor Pongsapat Pongcharoen said on Friday.

His major rival, former governor Sukhumhand Paribatra of the Democrat Party, emphasised the flood drainage tunnels built during his just-ended term and progress being made on flood barriers and plans for new tunnels.

Both candidates campaigned in different areas of the city on Friday.

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tau
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Discussion 15 : 09 Feb 2013 at 07.5715
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What is he going to put all of Bangkok on stilts?Just another election trick.The real problem is that there was never ever any planing in building the city where it is today.
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Discussion 14 : 09 Feb 2013 at 00.0914
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Sukhumbhand fought to try and keep Bangkok has much out of harms way as possible .Pongsapats PT party did not as thing except argue with him .
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Discussion 13 : 08 Feb 2013 at 22.5313
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"working with the government seamlessly". Which means doing whateer he is told to do? Then why have an elected governor? A civil servant would do as much.
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Discussion 12 : 08 Feb 2013 at 21.5412
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"The capital city will never again be flooded if he is elected,"

And what if it does?

Well, tough luck. It'll be the same as the tablets, southern insurgency, women's fund, car tax relief, fuel policy, inflation measures, reconciliation, rice pledge, the 2011 flood compensation and all the other Peua Thai failed policies and lies.
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Discussion 11 : 08 Feb 2013 at 21.0911
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Dis#4&10, the problem of rising sea tide has been recognized by Thailand for many years. Dams to control rising tide has been constructed as early as 1957. Lately the government announced that a new dam need to be constructed taking a lesson from the 2011 flood and global warming. If I am not wrong, it was stated that the Dutch government will be approach for their expertise. This piece of news was in the mass media.
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Discussion 10 : 08 Feb 2013 at 20.2710
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Disc 4#. I entirely agree and was about to make the same points. The issue is not so much one of drainage as the need to keep the sea out. Jakarta is confronted with a very similar problem. Unlike Thailand, Indonesia appears to recognise the rapidly approaching combined effect of sea-level rise and sinking land, and they are looking for solutions to this:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-29/jakarta-sinks-as-water-supplies-dry-up/4447022
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Discussion 9 : 08 Feb 2013 at 20.109
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Pongsapat's party, the PTP, promised to resolve all the flooding issues with their 350 billion baht emergency decree. One and a half years later they are still in the planning stage, no work has been done, no plans have been detailed. Why should we believe that Pongsapat will do anything more?
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Discussion 8 : 08 Feb 2013 at 20.008
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Come on never is a long time.Has he got an answer to it sinking and the sea levels rising.
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Discussion 7 : 08 Feb 2013 at 19.567
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There is a lot riding on these flood prevention projects and Bangkok residents do not deserve any BS.....
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Discussion 6 : 08 Feb 2013 at 19.516
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I would like if the candidates are personally held responsible for their promises. I.e. if someone promises “the capital city will never again be flooded” he should tell us what will happen if he is or at that time was wrong. Will he and his family repay any damaged party with all their own money? Will he personally repair all the damage? Or is the worst case what can happen to them is that in a few years they will say something like “sorry, it was an honest mistake”. As long as nobody is punished for intentionally misleading the voters nothing will change.
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