By Thai Newsroom Reporters
FORMER DIPLOMAT Pisan Manawapat was today (Jan.6) introduced as the People’s pick for foreign minister if the reformist party eventually becomes core of a government after the Feb.8 election.
Pisan is not only a former ambassador to the United States, Canada, India and head of Thai delegates to the European Union but a former senator named among others by the coup junta who had deposed an elected government in 2014. He was among a dozen senators who voted former Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat for prime minister, albeit to no avail, in 2023.
Pisan insisted that Thailand’s foreign policy be strengthened after the last couple of “wasteful” decades during which the country’s prestige and reputation in the international arena had been considerably overlooked and sidelined.
The ex-diplomat pointed out that foreign policy matters which will be efficiently addressed in top-priority order if he is eventually named foreign minister in a People’s-led government include the Trump Administration’s increased import tariffs on Thai goods, Thai-Cambodian border conflict, sustained fighting in Myanmar and transnational scammer networks.
Under the People’s Professionals campaign, certain qualified persons are publicly introduced as the reformist camp’s selected candidates who will assume respective ministerial seats if they become government following the nationwide election. They may or may not be anywhere on the list of 99 People’s candidates contesting the Feb.8 election in party-listed mode.
The Professionals campaign was primarily designed on the basis of putting the right man on the right job to supposedly assure those ministerial candidates could effectively perform as part of the People’s-led government.
If the People’s become core of a post-election government, People’s leader Nattapong Ruengpanyawut will definitely be named prime minister whilst a couple of his running mates for prime minister, namely deputy party leaders Sirikanya Tansakun and Veerayooth Kanchoochat, will automatically become deputy prime ministers.
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Former ambassador and senator Pisan Manawapat. Above photo – People’s Party, Front Page photo – Thai Rath
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