Politicians battle for coveted capital seats
Chaikasem Nitisiri, Pheu Thai Party’s chief strategist, said on Thursday that any of the party’s three prime ministerial candidates could be nominated for the top job.
The other candidates, apart from Mr Chaikasem, are Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Srettha Thavisin.
The party’s board will decide who eventually gets the nod, rather than following the numerical order assigned to these three figures when its list was submitted to the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday, he said.
Yet he claimed he had not been informed his name was on the list until the party asked him to fill in a form for submission to the EC that day.
Mr…
