By Thai Newsroom Reporters
Updated at 8.30 a.m., Jan. 10, 2026
SIRIKANYA TANSAKUN, one of a trio of the People’s candidates for prime minister, reassured today (Jan.9) the People’s will practically set up a coalition government with others in unconcealed, straightforward fashion as opposed to hush-hush, behind-closed-doors dealings if the reformist camp becomes the largest elected one in the Feb.8 general election.
The deputy People’s leader who is running alongside party leader Nattapong Ruengpanyawut and deputy party leader Veerayooth Kanchoochat as partisan contestants for prime minister confirmed that the People’s will hold a post-election dialogue with other parties in undisguised, transparent manner with intent to set up a coalition government and will by no means engage in secretive, clandestine, power-bargaining talks with anyone for that matter.
“We learned our lessons and we will certainly not engage in hush-hush talks at a Chinese food table anywhere. (Results of) talks will be completely, clearly known to members of the public,” Sirikanya told reporters.
She was apparently referring to last September’s event in which the People’s MPs cast yea votes in support of Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul for prime minister to run the country with a minority government. But he failed to push for passage of legislation to amend a coup junta-designed constitution and opted out by dissolving the House of Representatives to call the general election.
Under no circumstances will the People’s future MPs vote the Bhumjaithai leader/caretaker prime minister for head of a post-election government, no matter whether the reformist camp may eventually outvote the ultra-conservative camp or be outvoted by their archrivals, according to the deputy People’s leader.
In what was seen as an unprecedented political phenomenon, the People’s have quietly selected and then publicly unveiled certain qualified persons to assume varied portfolios of a People’s-led cabinet if the reformist camp comes out as the largest elected one, thus warranting the opportunity to perform as core of a post-election government.
The People’s have unveiled their ministerial candidates with respective personal histories and qualifications to the public in advance so that all prospective voters could freely take them into account and finally decide for themselves if they will tick on the People’s contestants in both party-listed and constituency-based modes of the nationwide race to parliament.
That is starkly in contrast to all other contesting camps where nobody is being publicly introduced as ministerial candidates prior to the Feb.8 election whilst the number of ministerial seats to be allocated to varied factions of a coalition partner would be usually, primarily proportionate to the number of MP seats which they may get.
.Meanwhile, legal counselor Piangpanor Boonklum was today formally introduced as the People’s pick for a yet-unspecified position in government if the reformist camp eventually runs the executive branch following the general election.
Piangpanor will be primarily assigned to make legal and bureaucratic reforms, abrogate unnecessary, obsolete laws, promote good-governance principles in bureaucratic circles as well as enhance procurement and employment procedures at government agencies to the extent that they be efficient, transparent and examinable.
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People’s prime minister candidate Sirikanya Tansakun. Above photo – PPTVHD36, Front Page – Thai Rath
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