Does Pheu Thai want to have its cake and eat it too?

Pheu Thai’s prime ministerial candidate Paetongtarn Shinawatra leads a march by the party’s top executives to the Move Forward party HQ on Wednesday.

It could be seen as one of Pheu Thai’s most humiliating moments, a political party that prides itself on its pro-democracy stance. Its top brass, including one of its prime ministerial candidates, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, literally walked to the headquarters of the Move Forward party on Wednesday to beg for support for its ongoing attempts to form a coalition government.

It’s only a short walk between the offices of the two parties, making the march a perfect political stunt, which resounded loudly on social media.

On one hand, it served Pheu Thai’s purpose of publicly demonstrating how serious it is in enlisting Move Party’s support to end the current political impasse.

On the other hand, however, it reflects the quandary…