Yingluck's Elections - Thailand

Thai election commission endorses Yingluck

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The Thai Election Commission has voted unanimously to endorse the election to parliament of Yingluck Shinawatra. Filmed during her election campaign, this report takes a look at this controversial figure and her policies.

Yingluck has been keen to embrace the legacy of her brother, the exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. She claims that her election slogan, "Thaksin thinks and Yingluck acts", means that she will pursue her brother's policies, but "my own way". Like her brother, she is popular among Thailand's poorest, promising pensions, a rice mortgage system and credit cards for farmers. There is, however, a darker politics at play. Yingluck will not condemn the pro-Thaksin militias who took to the streets when her brother was overthrown, and current PM Abhisit Vejjajiva fears that her party, "will be thinking about amnesty, a white washing" for renegades.If the election commission endorses her victory on Tuesday she'll make history by becoming the country's first ever female Prime Minister. Yet whether her allegiance to her brother proves to be an asset or a liability remains to be seen.

A Film By SBS
Distributed By Journeyman Pictures
July 2011

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[MrVinnyable1]

Because of her today Thailand is flooded.

[RedZone231]

world's hottest prime minister for sure

[vangiesml3]

I m sure PM yingluck can do a good job. pls give her time to prove it. is for the best interest of Thai people if u can support your leader n not criticize your leader all the time.

[TeckDeckEugene]

I agree :)

[LegendaryFutureBoy]

yeah x__x

I hope it's getting better..

and the red-shirts see the right way..

[LegendaryFutureBoy]

yea, actually I know that all xD

I hate the red shirts -_-'' They aren't right.. they lie and cheat..

I hope it's getting better soon.

Yingluck should go in prison!

[chr5210]

Yingluck Shinawatra like her brother Thaksin Shinawatra will hurt the King of Thailand. Thaksin Shinawatra is never coming back. Yingluck Shinawatra should get and resign as Prime Minister of Thailand and disolved the Pheu Thai Party and call for a snap election 2012. Abhisit Vejjajiva, a Democrat who will resume as our Prime Minister of Thailand for the House of Representatives not Pheu Thai Party as the Red Shirts of so called Shinawatras.

[chr5210]

Yingluck Shinawatra are now over and she and her husband are getting a divorce.

[chr5210]

Yingluck Shinawatra, a Pheu Thai bimbo and a crook like her brother Thaksin Shinawatra will pay a price for a crime she committed for defaming and insulting the Thai Monarch, election fraud that she stole the election and defraud Democratic Incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for his reelection because he is our best Prime Minister, not Yingluck Shinawatra as the same of Thaksin Shinawatra, murdering more than 500 people the flooding incident, corruption, and is a criminal.

[ananda75413]

how much did she pay you to reply

[chr5210]

I am telling the truth and I prove that Pheu Thai bimbo Yingluck Shinawatra is lying like her brother Thaksin.

[chr5210]

No insult and defaming, and strong language. Use euphemism in the modified version according to censorship in Thailand.