All eyes will be on Wednesday's launch of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party which is widely seen as a possible offshoot of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) and a ploy by the ruling party to address its waning popularity.
For some time, Pheu Thai had been so excited about the prospect of scoring a landslide victory in the next election that it might not have contemplated what could go wrong.
It appeared as a happy ending for struggling lottery vendors who decided to end a rally after their demands for government assistance in securing a quota of cheaper tickets were met. However, only time will tell whether the vendors' plight will really be resolved.
All eyes are on two small parties which are expected to help the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) secure party-list seats and counteract a new method of calculating the seats seen to favour small parties at the expense of big ones.
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