Pheu Thai should wait before leaping back into power

Pheu Thai can come back to power, although it might not be the kind of “power” it was looking for. With a new election looming, Pheu Thai has many key questions to ponder and one of them is how it would enter the race – for the nation’s and its own sake.
While the selection of the leader will be a huge issue in Thailand’s identity-based politics, I would argue that it is a secondary issue.
To me, the more valid question is whether or not PT should seek to form a government or not. And I say that it should not.
The next government will not be able to accomplish very much due to the provisions in the new constitution, especially with all the appointed senators. Further, the next government is going to have to deal with the fallout of the military’s spending spree. Finally, this “new” system will inevitably have flaws (which will become apparent, they always do) and it would be better to allow others to work them out. If the PT were to do it, they would be handled in the most disadvantageous way possible to them.
The PT should run on an explicit promise to not form a government, but rather to be the opposition. They should use that opposition to decry endlessly the flaws in the new system (they ARE there), the illegitimacy of the appointed senators, the lack of transparency of what the military has done, especially with government money, and decry the collaborators.
The “rope-a-dope” approach would allow it to rebuild its base, create some new policies, and all around get its house in order. And sit on the sidelines criticising the hell out of what comes next by the military.
 Samui Bodoh
As a strong yet respected voice in opposition to the elected government, will they be labelled “The Democrats”, I wonder. I agree that this would be far better for PT than attempting – and probably failing – to govern, within the frenzied political climate that PT’s last three years in office and, by election-time, five-and-a-half years of the junta juggernaut have created. I take the view that “the others” – the elite or establishment-backed Democratic party – having made their new constitutional bed, should be made to lie in it and to sort out a mess largely of their own making – a monumental task for any government.
There will be so many difficulties to be handled by the new government that opportunities for a PT opposition to voice constructive, rather than merely controversial, criticism will be many and meaty. And the best thing about such a scenario is that pretty well everything will need to be seen to done for the betterment of the country and with cross-party support on the many issues that will directly affect Thai people’s lives. There might even be transparency in Thai politics ... possibly for the first time since the political reforms of 1932 opened the door to government for the people, by the people. Or is that going to far?
Ossy
Pheu Thai has many key questions to ponder and one of them is how it would enter the race – for the nation’s and its own sake. None of the parties needed to ponder such a moral dilemma for more than a second: publicly, it’s always for the sake of the nation – privately, screw the nation
yellowboat
Thaksin has always surprised many with his last-minute choice. Happened with Samak and Yingluck. Not much build-up for both these two, and they caught the opposition by surprise. I think it will be same this time, and Sudarat may just be the decoy and distraction. 
I think the PTP should go all out and win the election with a majority or with coalition. I think the establishment and the military are fragmented and vulnerable and the highly skewed constitution can be rewritten. When that happens, the military will be too weak to stage another coup. This time the peasants will not be passive. 
seajae
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