Political Watch: parties head to head in heated congress race
Day 401, 19:29
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by Wisdom
December 25, 19:29,
Reported live by The Thai Gazette from the election booths
- Bangkok - Despite the slow start, the election for the eThailand congress of December 2008 - January 2009 becomes heated as parties are plotting to push as many candidates as possible to the top 40 list, with last-minute votes seen as a decisive factor.
The 55 candidates are competing for the 40 congress seats, with 7 for each region and 5 wild cards, which are likely to be taken by the candidates from the populous Central Region. The day will end with 15 disappointed aspiring politicians, but it is certainly unclear at this moment who will be listed in the dreaded bottom 15 chart.
Parties are closely observing the numbers, meticulously calculating how to spread the votes to gain most seats. The TNT, as in the previous elections, seems to be the most organized and is able to spread out its massive manpower nicely, with most of its candidates already securing at least two votes.
But the TRP and the Sabai Unity Party are not going to give up easily. They have become increasingly vocal and aggressive in getting the right numbers for their congress contestants, perhaps fearing the return of the TNT-dominated congress that had influenced the eThai politics so much in the past months.
The fourth party is not very vocal in this election.The young Nobelis, partly filled with ex-TNT members, seems to start slowly but has now climbing up the rank quickly.
At the time of this report (19:1
TNT - 16:4
TRP 11:6
Sabai 7:2
Nobelis 6:3
The Thai Gazette is a quality newspaper dedicated to political and economic news of eThailand. It does not claim to be neutral, but it will certainly try to be as much objective as possible.
Reported live by The Thai Gazette from the election booths
- Bangkok - Despite the slow start, the election for the eThailand congress of December 2008 - January 2009 becomes heated as parties are plotting to push as many candidates as possible to the top 40 list, with last-minute votes seen as a decisive factor.
The 55 candidates are competing for the 40 congress seats, with 7 for each region and 5 wild cards, which are likely to be taken by the candidates from the populous Central Region. The day will end with 15 disappointed aspiring politicians, but it is certainly unclear at this moment who will be listed in the dreaded bottom 15 chart.
Parties are closely observing the numbers, meticulously calculating how to spread the votes to gain most seats. The TNT, as in the previous elections, seems to be the most organized and is able to spread out its massive manpower nicely, with most of its candidates already securing at least two votes.
But the TRP and the Sabai Unity Party are not going to give up easily. They have become increasingly vocal and aggressive in getting the right numbers for their congress contestants, perhaps fearing the return of the TNT-dominated congress that had influenced the eThai politics so much in the past months.
The fourth party is not very vocal in this election.The young Nobelis, partly filled with ex-TNT members, seems to start slowly but has now climbing up the rank quickly.
At the time of this report (19:1
😎each party has the "winning" and "losing" candidates as follows:
TNT - 16:4
TRP 11:6
Sabai 7:2
Nobelis 6:3
The Thai Gazette is a quality newspaper dedicated to political and economic news of eThailand. It does not claim to be neutral, but it will certainly try to be as much objective as possible.
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This election seem much more intense than last months. Every vote can have big impact here
It seems more intense, but that's probably mostly because there are more candidates, and the field is more evenly balanced in terms of party alliances. Last month there was just a broad coalition, and the most populous party. This month the most populous party has an allied party, the coalition lost a member, and there's a party fielding no candidates. Plus, there's 8 more candidates in play than last month. Messier and tighter than last time around.
However, I don't think it's more intense than last month. More tense, but less effort is being expended. I think. I can't say for certain, but I don't think we've had anyone resorting to shifting voters around the country to prop up individual candidates as we saw last month... though this could be happening and it's just not obvious.
i dont know what to comment in this article, since it look like want to divide eThai in pro or anti TNT parties, is this your intention wisdom?
antonio his article seems very non-bias. he seems to be writing it from the perspective of a spectator.
I don't think he has malicious intent. It's an observational column. Does not seem like he is anti-TNT.
ok, maybe was misunderstood or wrong interpretation.
the important is that we will have some new blood in congress, and( if i am elected) i think i will continue to work with some old friends.
this mean that congress will continue past work but with new ideas...
the important is that even with TDP and Estonian party going out of political scenario now we have a new party coming strong( actually stronger then this 2 parties together - at least in last election), nobelis.
Antonio - no offense, but Nobelis has yet to really do anything to show that it has any strength besides what it has on paper. It's one thing to attract members and successfully contest seats, and quite another to actually do anything meaningful with them. I'll reserve judgment as to whether it's a significant force until it's actually been tested.
you are not offending me, the strengh i mean is by the number of seats( i dont know now, i have to check results)