Thaksin's 'last war' is warming up in the Northeast | Bangkok Post: opinion

THINK PRAGMATIC

With the bell yet to be rung, the two fired-up boxers are seething to get at each other and beat each other to a pulp in the fight of a lifetime which promises to be fierce and bloodthirsty.

That is how it looks now on the political front - spoiling for a fight with intense mutual animosity roiling through the camps of the Puea Thai and Bhumjaithai parties. In the Northeast, the main boxing ring for the two arch-rivals, a semblance of election fight fever can now be felt with huge campaign posters and billboards showcasing their potential candidates and policies springing up.

One Bhumjaithai poster screams out the party's amnesty plan to restore reconciliaton while calling for everyone to unite and protect the monarchy. Another poster which features a portrait of one of the party's potential candidates calls for collective resistance against the so-called "New Thai State", a proposed new political order initiated by some extreme ideologues of the red shirt movement.