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| File:PheuThai Logo.png File:PheuThai Text.png | |
| Leader | Yongyuth Wichaidit |
| Spokesperson | Prompong Nopparith |
| Founded | 20 September 2008 |
| Headquarters | 626 BBD Bld. Phraram IV Rd. Mahapruekkaram, Bangrak, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Ideology | Populism |
| Colors | Red |
| Website | |
| http://www.ptp.or.th | |
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For Thais Party (Template:Lang-th, Phak Phuea Thai, PTP) is a Thai political party founded on September 20, 2008, when it was expected that the People's Power Party, itself a successor party to former PM Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai, would be dissolved by the Constitutional Court of Thailand, which occurred on December 2, 2008. The party was founded by former PPP MPs which were not banned from politics and are continuing the policies of its predecessor parties, the TRT and the PPP. By December 3, 2008, 80 former PPP MPs have defected to the For Thais Party. It elected its executive commission on December 7, 2008, one day before a new PM is set to be voted on. The candidates for the party's leader were: Apiwan Wiriyachai, the former Vice President of the House of Representatives), former health minister Chalerm Yubamrung and former industry minister Mingkwan Saengsuwan. On December 7 Yongyuth Wichaidit was elected as the party's leader.
On the same day MPs convened in a parliamentary session in which five parties in the House of Representatives including the PPP's former coalition partners decided to endorse Abhisit Vejjajiva as the next Prime Minister and a Democrat-led coalition. The For Thais Party campaigned to bring back former PPP-coalition partner members. However, it was too late as Abhisit had secured enough support for the premiership. Afterwards the party called for a national unity government in which all parties would be involved, with Snoh Thienthong of the Royalist People's Party as the new premier, however these efforts failed. On December 11 Worrawat Eua-apinyakul, a PTP member, suggested that the party should push for a house dissolution, and therefore depriving the Democrats of a leading role in a government. However, this effort failed as the President of the House of Representatives; Chai Chidchob spoke against the plan. On the same day The Nation Newspaper reported that MPs were offered up to 55 million Baht to defect to the PTP in an attempt to stop Abhisit securing enough votes in order to be elected as the next Prime Minister.
On December 15, 2008, the party elected nominated Pracha Promnok as the party's candidate for Prime Minister in the case of a further general election.
References
- http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30090121
- http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30090121
- http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/12/02/afx5763940.html
- http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/12/03/politics/politics_30090122.php
- http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={2CB64E2C-6B90-444D-94A7-F4F8D287EB89})&language=EN
- http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/12/07/politics/politics_30090371.php
- http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/12/08/politics/politics_30090398.php
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7774676.stm
- http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/12/10/politics/politics_30090621.php
- http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/12/11/politics/politics_30090681.php
- http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/12/11/politics/politics_30090702.php
