{"id":53627,"date":"2025-12-24T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=53627"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:05:26","slug":"thailands-anutin-picked-as-pm-candidate-in-consequential-february-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=53627","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s Anutin picked as PM candidate in &#8216;consequential&#8217; February polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)BANGKOK, Dec 24  &#8211; Thailand&#8217;s caretaker leader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/how-thailands-anutin-charnvirakul-rose-cannabis-crusader-prime-minister-2025-09-05\/\">Anutin Charnvirakul<\/a>\u00a0was picked by his party on Wednesday to stand as its candidate for prime minister in a general election in early February, as he bids to benefit from a wave of nationalism arising from an ongoing border conflict with Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less than 100 days after he was elected premier, Anutin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/thai-pm-sets-course-early-election-amid-border-parliamentary-unrest-2025-12-12\/\">dissolved parliament<\/a>&nbsp;earlier this month when his minority government faced the threat of a no-confidence vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to party members and supporters on Wednesday, Anutin said he and his Bhumjaithai party were ready to return to power, describing the February 8 election as &#8220;the most consequential poll&#8221; for the conservative political outfit since its formation in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Today we are sure and ready to enter the election race to serve Thailand and its people,&#8221; Anutin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is the first time the Thai people has high expectations from the Bhumjaithai Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If re-elected, Anutin said that key executives of his government will keep their roles, including Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas, Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow and Commerce Minister Suphajee Suthumpun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)BANGKOK, Dec 24 &#8211; Thailand&#8217;s caretaker leader\u00a0Anutin Charnvirakul\u00a0was picked by his party on Wednesday to stand as its candidate for prime minister in a general election in early February, as he bids to benefit from a wave of nationalism arising from an ongoing border conflict with Cambodia. Less than 100 days after he was elected premier, Anutin&nbsp;dissolved parliament&nbsp;earlier this month when his minority government faced the threat of a no-confidence vote. Speaking to party members and supporters on Wednesday, Anutin said he and his Bhumjaithai party were ready to return to power, describing the February 8 election as &#8220;the most&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53630,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53627\/revisions\/53630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}