万花筒 2011-07-05&07-07 他信他妹--英禄成为泰国第一位女总理

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Yingluck Shinawatra--Puea Thai Party, took a slim majority over the Democratic Party headed by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.

 

--The first thing that we, of course, we have to help people out economic problems. 

 

Yingluck is the younger sister of one of Thailand's polarizing political figures, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted² in 2006 military coup³. Two years later, he fled the country after been convicted on conflict venturous charges.  

 

Yingluck’s critics worry she will simply do her brother’s bidding, something she denies. But before she even gave her victory speech, her brother shared his comments from exile in Dubai.

 

I will tell them that I really want to go back, but I will wait for a right moment and the right situation. 

 

The Puea Thai Party is still fiercely behind Thaksin and want him back. The so-called Yellow Shirts initially⁴ formed to oust¹ Thaksin would do whatever they can to stop that from happening. 

 

What does his sister say about all this? We asked her just before the election.

 

If you become Prime Minister, will you pardon your brother Thaksin and allow him back into the country?

 

--I can’t do anything special for my brother. So as long as if, my brother would be included in this, so he would get the same as everyone have. So make sure that every process will follow by the rule of law. 

 

But the average voter in Thailand is not so caught up follow this, the main thing they want is for their leaders to shrink the gap between what they earn and the skyrocketing cost of living. 

 

Free education is good; care for the elder is also good. In fact, every party’s policy is great. The question is if they will ever implement⁵ them, she says.

 

Despite the animosity between the two major parties, they are making similar promises to the public: free education, a better overall economy and a major increase in the minimum wage. But analysts⁷ want to give voters a reality check, in looking at how much that would cost. It is more than Thailand can afford. 

 

It will be something that we have to spend, somewhere between an additional 1.5 trillion baht, up to 7.5 trillion baht with all the extravagance programs which is 5 times that national budgets. I mean we will be broken in one year. 

 

No one wants to see that. But the analyst⁶ is right. That means Thai voters may end up disappointing with political leaders yet again.

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