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183118
Thu, 05/19/2011 - 12:18
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"Yingluck" pledges to work for Thai people
BANGKOK, May 19 (TNA) - "Yingluck Shinawatra", the Puea Thai Party's leading candidate who is in the running to be Thailand's first female prime minister in the forthcoming general election, said on Thursday that she intends to work for the public and would like to see a free and fair national poll on July 3.
Yingluck, who is the youngest sister of exiled ex-Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, insisted that, if elected, she would give priority to public interest initiatives, rather than first pushing for a political pardon for Thaksin as some had speculated. The leading Thai businesswoman-turned politician said that she also wants to impartially secure the rule of law for people of all groups in the country.
Forty-three-year-old Yingluck, who has been placed on top of the Puea Thai's party-list system, made the comments after the Thaksin-supported Puea Thai Party got the No. 1 slot for voting ballots through a lot drawn at the Thai-Japanese Youth Sport Centre in Bangkok's Din Daeng area on Thursday morning.
Yingluck hailed the auspicious result, noting that it is also easy to remember, and that the candidacy registration for the party-list system, which kicked off on May 19, should be deemed as a good start for the country's democracy. She also recalled and commemorated those killed in Thailand's bloody political unrest on May 19, 2010.
Meanwhile, the Democrat Party of now caretaker Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was assigned the No. 10 slot on the first-day of the candidacy registration for the party-list system, which will continue until May 23. (TNA)
Yingluck, who is the youngest sister of exiled ex-Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, insisted that, if elected, she would give priority to public interest initiatives, rather than first pushing for a political pardon for Thaksin as some had speculated. The leading Thai businesswoman-turned politician said that she also wants to impartially secure the rule of law for people of all groups in the country.
Forty-three-year-old Yingluck, who has been placed on top of the Puea Thai's party-list system, made the comments after the Thaksin-supported Puea Thai Party got the No. 1 slot for voting ballots through a lot drawn at the Thai-Japanese Youth Sport Centre in Bangkok's Din Daeng area on Thursday morning.
Yingluck hailed the auspicious result, noting that it is also easy to remember, and that the candidacy registration for the party-list system, which kicked off on May 19, should be deemed as a good start for the country's democracy. She also recalled and commemorated those killed in Thailand's bloody political unrest on May 19, 2010.
Meanwhile, the Democrat Party of now caretaker Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was assigned the No. 10 slot on the first-day of the candidacy registration for the party-list system, which will continue until May 23. (TNA)
