NationThailand-May 7
The United Thai Nation Party on Sunday released an ominous video that is widely being interpreted as an attack on the Move Forward Party’s central campaign theme – “change”. The nearly three-minute video presents a series of ominous simulated images and scenes that warn of an increase in elderly beggars, disrespectful children, defiled monuments, and young women turning to pornography because it is their “right”.
In the future Thailand may even lose its ability to protect its borders, the video warns. Thailand is already a peaceful country with fine social values, the video says before asking Thais if they truly want to see a change to something worse. Move Forward’s candidate is Harvard-educated Pita Limjaroenrat. Recent polls show Move Forward and another opposition party – Phue Thai – leaving all other political parties in the dust, and that momentum is shifting towards Move Forward.
Pita is the most popular candidate to be Thailand’s next prime minister, according to the latest Nation and Nida polls. Pheu Thai’s Paetongtarn Shinawatra places second, while Prayut is a distant third. Read more at: https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/politics/40027360
