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In my last article I expressed my concerns about the last presidential elections, and promised a review on Thailand’s 4 parties in my next article.

Below are my reviews on the parties as they have been since the reformation of Thailand and I encourage everybody reading to become a greater part of our community and see for themselves who is active in the running of Thailand and have their own involvement by visiting our IRC channel #ethai

Pattana Unity Party

The PuP is a longstanding party in Thailand and one of the leading parties before Thailand became a part of Malaysia. Upon regaining independence in late 2009 the PuP was immediately reformed and contains many experienced citizens who remember Thailand before it lost it’s indepence, a lot of history including many former presidents and has the most members within Thailand.

Thai Military Party

The newest Thai party was formed before the March President elections. An uncontested PuP party presidency had allowed a rogue citizen to make the decision on who the PuP should field as president – choosing themselves with a mandate differing from what the PuP stood for. The new Thai Military party allowed put forward a candidate formally in the PuP to secure Thailand’s future and many former PuP members joined the new party. The differences in political focus from the PuP are still not evident but the good intentions of this party of evident and their has so far been great co-operation between this party and the PuP

eThai Democratic Party

Formally the jedi party, established by a group of experienced players who based themselves in Thailand following the Thailand regaining their independence. The jedi’s have now moved on and the party is yet to find a clear focus, their policies usually varying depending on the party president and presidential candidate. The party houses many newer Thai citizens who, with lesser experience, have ideas somewhat different to the thought process within the current parliament. The varying ideas on tax systems in particular provide a good breeding ground for a democracy within Thailand, however leadership from a more IRC active candidate and a greater consistency in thought from month to month is strongly desired to enhance the political choices available in Thailand, with confidence that the required time and effort to running the country will be in place.

Thai Girl Party

The party with the least members and yet frequently winners of the Presidential election. Sadly a Thai Girl Party candidate has never been seen in our country communication channel and despite winning many elections no activity has ever been seen following elections. Vote timings are often suspicious (i.e. very few votes for hours and then 20 within 10 minutes) often blamed on players in this group using multi-accounts. The stage has been reached where congress has no confidence in this party’s candidates and they are immediately impeached if winning. This is not a political event that I am happy with and I strongly encourage citizens who want to represent this party to form involvement in our country IRC channel where they will be greeted with open minds.

Conclusions

Whilst undoubtedly containing some bias, the above reflects my experiences of Thai politics. The running of the country, regulation of our money supply, tax revenues, fighting opportunities, world politics, running of the central bank, MoF, embassy is predominantly done by the citizens in the first two parties. However many of those who dedicate much time are frequently not voted into congress, beaten by candidates that did nothing more than click the run for congress button.

I have been lucky enough to be supported by sufficient voters over the past few months to be elected for congress; however I see many undeservedly excluded from a seat in congress and want to develop the understanding of Thailand politics.

A greater involvement in the IRC chat room #ethai from candidates and voters alike would be massively advantageous, however the majority of voters have limited time for the game and base their decisions on a name, an avatar, maybe a presentation or national goals which in many cases will not be fulfilled. This ignorance generates some random election results in Thailand and better education for the voting population and a clearer presence in Thai discussions from some of the parties is a necessity if Thailand is going to grow to be the nation that we all know it can be.