By Thai Newsroom Reporters
ROI ET – Yodchanan Wongsawat, the top Pheu Thai contestant for prime minister, today (Jan.24) confirmed the populist party’s sensational campaign promise to literally turn nine people into a millionaire everyday in case that his camp becomes core of a government after the Feb.8 election.
Addressing prospective voters in Constituency 8 of the northeastern province, Yodchanan, nephew of de facto Pheu Thai boss/inmate Thaksin Shinawatra, reassured the neo-conservative, populist party will manage to literally hand out one million baht in cash to nine people daily if they get hold of the executive branch following the nationwide election.
According to Pheu Thai leader/former deputy finance minister Julapun Amornvivat, who is among a trio of partisan contestants for prime minister, the one-million-baht cash handout policy primarily designed to stimulate domestic consumption and boost the national economy will be randomly handed out on daily basis to nine people including those who may hold bills of purchase of goods or services, those who may file income tax, the elderly who are 60 years or older, village-based defence volunteers, village-based public health volunteers and farmers.
“Our brand-new policy will turn nine people into millionaires everyday and holidays will be no exception. It will definitely be implemented if voters in all eight constituencies here vote for the Pheu Thai on February 8,” Yodchanan told the cheering crowd.
But the puzzling millionaire’s campaign promise publicly made by Thaksin’s camp is undoubtedly drawing all-out criticism from the Old School conservative Democrats, among other electoral contestants.
Former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij who is seeking re-election in party-listed mode under the Democrat tickets dismissed such a populist campaign promise as an utterly shameless waste of the taxpayer’s money and doubted that it would considerably strengthen the national economy or bring a worthwhile profit to society as otherwise proclaimed by those Pheu Thai contestants.
Korn charged that the “wasteful” handout policy could possibly only benefit partisan associates and canvassers whereas a previous Pheu Thai-led government had already failed to address economic problems with their erroneous, undone 10,000-baht “digital wallet” handout project.
Meanwhile, former Prime Minister’s Office minister Jiraporn Sindhuprai and her sister Chayapa Sindhuprai are seeking re-election under the Pheu Thai banners in Constituency 5 and Constituency 8 of the northeastern province respectively.
In what was seen as a sustained vendetta in the family, Bhumjaithai candidate Thanachai Sindhuprai is relentlessly competing against the ex-MP Chayapa in the latter constituency. Thanachai is a son of Jureeporn Sindhuprai who ran under the Thai Sang Thai tickets and was overwhelmingly defeated by his rival cousin who vied under the Pheu Thai banners in the 2023 election.
Jureeporn is an aunt of Jiraporn and Chayapa, who are both daughters of ex-Red Shirt leader/ex-MP Nisit Sindhuprai who had been sentenced in absentia to four years in prison on charges of instigating 2009’s organised siege over an Asean meeting in Pattaya.
In Constituency 2, former deputy House speaker Chalard Khamchuang is seeking re-election under the Pheu Thai tickets vying against archrival contestants, namely Tinakorn Onprathum and Ekarat Ponsue of the Bhumjaithai and Klatham respectively.
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Pheu Thai candidate for prime minister Yodchanan Wongsawat in Roi Et today, Jan. 24, 2026. Above photo – Amarin TV, Front Page photo – Thai Rath
First insert – Pheu Thai candidate for prime minister Julapun Amornvivat announcing the new cash handout promise at Siam Paragon last evening. Photo – Naewna
Second insert – Jiraporn Sindhuprai and her sister Chayapa Sindhuprai campaigning in Roi Et. Photo – MCOT
Third insert – Thanachai Sindhuprai wooing voters in Roi Et. Photo – Facebook
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