Thai here. Will provide more complete report, plus background and my own opinion, as soon as more solid number arrives…and I got time off work and study.
As of this moment (15/05/23, 01:40, local time), yeah, the social-democrat-with-barely-define-policy is currently taking the lead, follow by long-time-oligarch, a oligarch, a party from current administration, another party from current administration, and the original, actual conservative.
Frustratingly none, and you can thanks the west for that.
Thailand is one of the nation considered allies to the US during the Cold War, to the point they use our country as base of operation during their war against Vietnam. Airbases expanded to house wings of USAF jets. Entire town filled with American troops (this is probably where the reputation on how we’re the hub of sex industry came from - sex industry expanded a lot during the 70s largely to fulfill the demand of US soldiers.)
(You can guess why our military were so well-proficient in overthrowing our own government. Kinda backfired against the west lately, though.)
There was a point where these western-sponsored military government, plus some religious institution, really crank up the anti-communist rhetoric to the point that people were killed on the street for being accused of associated with the communist. The Communist Party of Thailand were practically forced to fled into hiding in forest. I’m not that sure about what happened to them (the information is reeeeally hard to find, and even harder to verify), but from what I gathered, their desperation drove them to recruit anyone that would join them. They shift their focus from education to simply survival (for obvious reasons). I think they loss too many people with strong ideology that most that remain just gave up when the government offer full amnesty to all of them in around 1980s.
Thai here. Will provide more complete report, plus background and my own opinion, as soon as more solid number arrives…and I got time off work and study.
As of this moment (15/05/23, 01:40, local time), yeah, the social-democrat-with-barely-define-policy is currently taking the lead, follow by long-time-oligarch, a oligarch, a party from current administration, another party from current administration, and the original, actual conservative.
Thanks, looking forward to it. I’m curious are there any socialist parties in Thailand?
Frustratingly none, and you can thanks the west for that.
Thailand is one of the nation considered allies to the US during the Cold War, to the point they use our country as base of operation during their war against Vietnam. Airbases expanded to house wings of USAF jets. Entire town filled with American troops (this is probably where the reputation on how we’re the hub of sex industry came from - sex industry expanded a lot during the 70s largely to fulfill the demand of US soldiers.)
(You can guess why our military were so well-proficient in overthrowing our own government. Kinda backfired against the west lately, though.)
There was a point where these western-sponsored military government, plus some religious institution, really crank up the anti-communist rhetoric to the point that people were killed on the street for being accused of associated with the communist. The Communist Party of Thailand were practically forced to fled into hiding in forest. I’m not that sure about what happened to them (the information is reeeeally hard to find, and even harder to verify), but from what I gathered, their desperation drove them to recruit anyone that would join them. They shift their focus from education to simply survival (for obvious reasons). I think they loss too many people with strong ideology that most that remain just gave up when the government offer full amnesty to all of them in around 1980s.