Refl : Di Indonesia kalau partai politik kalah dalam Pemilu, ketua tetap saja pada kedudukannya. Tetapi, di Thailand langsung berhenti menjadi ketua.
http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=19760&sec=1 Thai PM steps down as Democrat leader He had earlier said that he would step down as the party leader if his party failed to win 170 seats in the election News Desk The Nation (Thailand) Publication Date : 04-07-2011 After suffering a defeat in the Sunday's (July 3) general election, incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Monday (July 4) announced his resignation as the Democrat Party leader. His party won only 159 House seats, short of at least 170 seats Abhisit had earlier expected. He had told the media that he would step down as the party leader if his party failed to win 170 seats. Abhisit was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1964. He is married to Chulalongkorn University lecturer Pimpen and has two children. Abhisit attended primary school in Thailand, at Chulalongkorn University's Demonstration School, and then had further education in England, including at Eton College. He earned a joint degree in philosophy, politics and economics and later a Masters in Economics from Oxford, before coming back to Thailand and earning a degree in Law at Ramkhamhaeng University. He had a brief academic career, teaching at the Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy and at Thammasat University. He left academia to run for political office in 1992. At the age of 27, he had won a parliamentary seat and became the only Democrat MP in Bangkok at that time. Abhisit's involvement in the Democrat party runs deep. While he hails from a family of doctors, he was a youth volunteer in Democratic campaigns while still in school. After becoming an MP for Bangkok, he served as government spokesman in the 1992 Chuan Leekpai administration, and as PM's Office Minister in the Chuan Leekpai government of 1997. He has been the Democrat party leader since 2005. Abhisit is known for his reputation as a clean politician, but has faced criticism for overlooking the corrupt activities of other members of his government. He also had to contend with becoming prime minister without winning the popular vote. He took office through horse-trading, after the Thaksin-supported People's Power Party (PPP) was dissolved by the courts in 2008. There is also the perception that he's upper-class and out of touch with the common voters. In this election, Abhisit focused on offering a realistic economic policy that would improve the lives of the poor, defined the election as a choice between voting Democrat or for Thaksin, and, at least in Bangkok, brought back the spectre of the 2010 Bangkok riots. Other cornerstones of his platform were 15 years of free education and a gradual minimum wage hike. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
