Phitha tells the story of the south, saying that many parties fight with the past. But going a long way to fight with the future
On October 25, Mr. Pita Limcharoenrat, leader of the Kao Klai Party Write a message on Facebook telling the story about the election strategy of the Progressive Party in the southern region, saying:
On Southern Election Strategy: Many Parties Fight Against the Past But we will fight with the future
Many people may not know that P. Tom Chaithawat Tulathon, the secretary-general of the Progressive Party. People who have been the brains of the party since the era of the Future Forward Party. Continuing until the Progressive Party was a southerner, born and raised in Songkhla Province. Throughout our journey to the south this past week was filled with stories and dreams about P’ Tom’s southern region.
Brother Tom said that “We are proud to believe that our southern region is more prosperous than other regions. Which is not wrong because 30 years ago, the South really was like that. With abundant natural resources, we can get a lot of money from the soil. The problem is 30-40 years ago, besides cutting more roads, almost nothing has changed in the South. Everything seems to have stopped, 30 years ago, it is still today.”
“Before, the rubber was cut and the price was pressured. Today it is still like that. Rubber processing technology that should be available to allow farmers to sell rubber at higher prices. But so far there has not been, because the sleeping tigers are trying to prevent the rubber processing plant from happening. Palm where farmers live in the hands of the government. Mangosteen with falling prices every year and tourism in which the budget and promotion ideas are in the hands of the central state not from local people but from the air-conditioned warriors in Bangkok.”
“We may be too attached to the past prosperity. A few years ago, when I took my mother to Isaan, my mother was quite shocked that Isaan was so prosperous. So I had to tell my mom that Isaan hadn’t developed for a while either. You try to think about how deep the belief that our country is the most prosperous is buried. The size of the northeastern region that hasn’t developed noticeably for a while still shocks my mother.”
“The problem is that the world is evolving at a very fast pace, we’ve been standing still for 30 years, while others don’t call us walking. It’s probably cheaper to run forward. You don’t have to compare with other countries. Just take other parts of the country. If we don’t do anything to our hometown Soon the South will surely be so bad that it will be difficult to recover. because we can’t keep up with the developing world Factors that have driven the economy of the South for the past 30-40 years have not been able to carry the South any further. At most, we might drag it on for another 4-5 years, but that’s it, after we’re done with the rubble, the next generation who has to bear all the failures will be the next generation.”
But P. Tom believes that we still have hope. Phi Tom is confident that in the upcoming elections The Progressive Party will have enough MPs to make a difference in the South and Thailand.
because from the past to the present All parties search for candidates for the southerners by looking at their last names. Asking to be a relative of an old politician whether local politicians or national politicians, ranging from SAO, SAO, MP, senator, depending on which party is going to suck up who’s last name
All parties are fighting the war in the south with each other in the past. past associated with surname
“We are definitely not going to play a game of snatching an old politician or a descendant of an old politician in order to bring himself to do political work with us. Because what we are trying to find is not a famous last name. but people with the same ideals and dreams as us
We will not fight with the past We will fight with the future And we are sure that there are many people who know and understand that we cannot go back in the past.
But it’s not easy To some extent, we have to trust those who have woken up that they will not give up and go back and help wake the people at home. There is no better way. We can’t wake up alone. We all have a responsibility to our ideals, dreams, and transformational movements.”
All what P’ Tom said above is something that we have experienced throughout our journey.
Along the way, we met with many provincial working groups. At first we thought that we would be criticized by the working group in the south that we didn’t have the time to meet and talk to them. Whether or not the working group may demand that we support them in various fields. Before going down to the south, we made up our minds that we were scolded. It was definitely heavily criticized.
But no, no one wants anything like that from us. Everyone understands that we have spent all our time proving ourselves in the council. Proving that even if he took Thanathorn Piyabutr out, the new ideology of the future still exists and continues to move forward. On the other hand, what the provincial working group demands from us. I want us to fight more. collide with the root of the problem more than everyone looks forward The conversation was all about fighting ideology.
One of the grandmothers who came to help the provincial working group told me that Grandma came to join this fight. In the end, Grandma couldn’t wait to see the change. But Grandma has to help because Grandma has a lot of time left. Brother Tom heard this sentence and brought tears to his eyes. This is not just a political party. It’s an ideology of change.
throughout the journey down to the South We can feel the yearning for change simmering in every patch. new future will The way forward that the party announced in Khon Kaen reflected as far as the Dim Sum restaurant in Surat Thani. Rice fields on the central island in Krabi rubber plantation in Trang to the mangosteen orchard in Nakhon Si Thammarat The party’s declaration goes a long way that we will unleash the potential of the country from the development curse by colliding with the central bureaucratic elephant. and sleeping tigers that benefit from unchanging
other political parties Maybe trying to win the hearts of people in the south with the story of the past
But for the far-reaching party We’ll talk about the future.
Let’s help change the minds of people in the south together.
