Pheu Thai vows to fix economy

With its places set on acquiring a landslide triumph in the next general election, the opposition Pheu Thai Party wooed voters in Chiang Rai yesterday simply by promising to improve the particular economy within six months of winning the particular polls.

If voters trust Pheu Thai to lead the next federal government, the party will work to resolve the nation’s financial problems, as well as interpersonal problems and bureaucratic inefficiencies, said Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the party’s chief adviser upon public participation plus innovation, and the innovator of the Pheu Thai Family project.

The most youthful daughter of exiled former PM Thaksin Shinawatra made the particular pledge at an event in which the party unveiled the candidates it is planning to field within next year’s polls.

Ms Paetongtarn, who recently topped a list of the particular party’s favourite picks for prime minister, said the country is definitely overwhelmed by multiple difficulties — which includes increasing household debts, high unemployment price, high consumer costs, low prices of farming products amid higher production costs, and stalled recovery within the tourism sector.

The only way for that people to overcome each one of these difficulties and the country to “return to the good state as once it was under my father and cousin [Yingluck Shinawatra]inch, is to help Pheu Thai win by a landslide again.

“I can assure you Pheu Thai has the response to all the questions that any Thais might have, ” she said.

In the girl speech, she mentioned Chiang Rai is a special border province that has the potential to develop if developed together with its neighbour, Chiang Mai.

Ms Paetongtarn stated a plan by the earlier government to speed up the development of Chiang Rai was upended with the coup.

“Chiang Rai might have been more developed. Get Dubai, for example , which started with just scraps, now they have everything, ” the lady said.

“My father, if he has the chance to come back home, is determined to back up reconciliation and join hands [in developing the country], ” she said, referring to Thaksin, that lives in self-exile abroad.

In the last election, Pheu Thailänder won in six out of all 8 constituencies in Chiang Rai, while the sleep were taken by Move ahead Party — whose two MPs within Chiang Rai will certainly run under the Bhumjaithai Party banner in the next poll.