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2005 Thailand's One Party Government

Thailand country wide election was held yesterday and it was finished with the BIG triumph of our ex-become-soon-to-be-PM of the country that will be run by one party goverment. That brings tears to my lovely colleague who come to work this morning with her eyes swollen like she had a bad night of break up or something but it's just that she's just sad how Thai people can be so ...... (you are allowed to fill in that space whatever you want)

I could understand maybe a very small part of what become a new page in Thailand political history. As many of my friends said that ThaiRakThai Party isn't so popoular in Bangkok area at all but you can look at the election result in today's newspaper where the majority of almost every district in the nation's capital was voting for Thaksin's Party as definitely opposite from what all of my friends said before.

This election has made me thinking about what happened to the US Election couple of months ago where the Republican popularity was all over the states which was like way opposite from what people thought. And what  these 2 countries have in common are that people who tended to vote for the opponent party just had their mind changed in the last minute. Even though many of the voters are not pro-ThaiRakThai party but they tended to stick to whatever that is happened right now in the country and probably didn't realize that the whole counrty would be run by 1 party government where no one would ever be able to touch the PM at all. I think that they just choose the party or individuals but if the whole results costs Thailands 399 MPs, I think that proves the party was coming to te right direction already. ( Note that I wrote "right direction" means that they know how to tackle with the majority ) Unlike Thailand's Democrat which faces popularity crisis and lack of a sole single direction where to head to due to the fact that the party is, sort of, divided in 2 sides: the old people vs the new people. After they tellied all the votes, Democrat party leader resigned and to my speculation I think the vice party leader would come to helm the party to a fresher start.