Sudarat Keyuraphan - main prime minister candidate for pro-Thaksin party in election
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1399866
Sudarat Keyuraphan - main prime minister candidate for pro-Thaksin party in election
- Title: Sudarat Keyuraphan - main prime minister candidate for pro-Thaksin party in election
- Date: 14th March 2019
- Summary: BANGKOK, THAILAND (FILE - FEBRUARY 15, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** SUDARAT KEYURAPHAN, PHEU THAI PARTY'S CANDIDATE FOR PRIME MINISTER, AND SON OF FORMER OUSTED PRIME MINISTER THAKSIN SHINAWATRA, PANTHONGTAE SHINAWATRA (IN TINTED GLASSES) GREETING PEOPLE VARIOUS OF SUDARAT AND PANTHONGTAE GREETING PEOPLE PHEU THAI SUPPORTERS AT A RALLY FOR PHEU THAI PARTY VARIOUS OF SUDARAT WAVING AND GREETING PEOPLE ON STAGE PEOPLE LISTENING TO SUDARAT ON STAGE SUDARAT SPEAKING ON STAGE
- Embargoed: 28th March 2019 10:38
- Keywords: prime minister voting election Pheu Thai Party junta Sudarat Keyuraphan coup Thailand politics
- Location: BANGKOK, UBONRATCHATHANI, THAILAND
- City: BANGKOK, UBONRATCHATHANI, THAILAND
- Country: Thailand
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA001A60L6IV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Thailand's Pheu Thai Party, which was ousted from power by the military in a 2014 coup picked Sudarat Keyuraphan, a close ally of fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra as its main candidate for prime minister in an election set for March 24.
Her political career began in 1991 as a member of parliament representing a district in Bangkok and had been appointed a minister in several governments. She is married to Somyos Leelapunyalert, a real estate entrepreneur and has three children.
Veteran politician Sudarat, 57, is a long-time Thaksin ally who helped found his now-defunct Thai Rak Thai Party, a predecessor to Pheu Thai.
Parties loyal to Thaksin have won every election in Thailand since 2001. Thaksin was overthrown by the military in 2006, and his sister Yingluck Shinawatra was also ousted as prime minister in 2014. Both are now fugitives after being convicted of corruption and negligence.
Sudarat told Reuters that the party would abide by electoral laws passed by the junta that forbid Thaksin from influencing the campaign.
Sudarat said her party was contesting despite the military dominance of the process because it thinks it can gain enough seats to form a coalition with other parties seeking to end military rule.
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