‘Teng Natthaphong’ helps campaign for ‘Chai Rat’, urging Ratchaburi residents to vote for No. 1 on September 1st in a landslide, changing Ratchaburi to be different, promoting the policy of clear water flowing 24 hours a day, and transparent PAO, which citizens can inspect.

Mr. Natthaphong Ruangpanyawut, leader of the Prachachon Party, along with MPs from the Prachachon Party, traveled to help campaign for Mr. Chairat Sakisarapong, candidate for president of the Ratchaburi Provincial Administrative Organization (PAO) under the name of the Prachachon Party. In the afternoon, they walked through the old Koykee Market, greeted vendors, introduced themselves as the leader of the Prachachon Party, and invited the people of Ratchaburi to elect Chairat No. 1 as president of the Ratchaburi PAO in the election on September 1, 2024, to change Ratchaburi for the better. Throughout the journey, people came to greet, give encouragement, and ask to take photos.

Then in the evening, Mr. Natthaphong gave a speech at the R
atchaburi Dragon Jar, saying that he would like to say that he is a new party leader, but he is not a new ideology that stands with the people. The Prachachon Party did not just come into being, but has its origins since the Future Forward Party, the Move Forward Party. In the past election in 2023, the party-list votes of the former Move Forward Party were ranked number 1. Therefore, September 1 is an important date. Please go out and vote for Chairat, show your power to the old politics that the patronage system no longer works in this country.

Why do the old political groups not feel any change no matter how many elections there are? Because the people who came to power did not receive money from the people. No one donated 10, 20, or 100 baht. They received it from the powerful capitalists. Their bosses are not us. But Mr. Chairat is a successful business owner who volunteered to do politics because he wanted to create change for the better in this country.

I never said that working in politics is a sacr
ifice, but a volunteer. Because when you win the election, enter power, receive a salary from the people, the people are our boss. One day, if Mr. Chairat becomes the provincial administrative organization president or I become the prime minister in the 2027 election, we promise not to forget ourselves. We will be easy to access as we are now.

For local elections, the context is different from national elections, and the election for the president of the Ratchaburi Provincial Administrative Organization was not held at the same time as other provinces. What made us win the election was that we all went out to show our power, exercised our right to vote a lot, and voted for number 1 in a landslide. Many brothers and sisters said they wanted to see a prime minister named Teng, but I can tell you that if we don’t get a president of the Ratchaburi Provincial Administrative Organization named Chairat, we definitely won’t see a prime minister named Teng.

Mr. Nattapong continued that the People’s Party has shown e
veryone that no matter how many times they destroy us with the legal mechanisms of war, they cannot stop us. Right now, the donations to the People’s Party are more than 19 million baht. It is believed that tonight it will definitely exceed 20 million baht. We also want to see the number of members of the People’s Party exceed 100,000 soon.

Mr. Nattapong also talked about his political path, saying that he entered politics even though his family had no history of working in politics before. Because in the 2019 election, it was a single-ballot election. At that time, he knew Mr. Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, Mr. Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, Ms. Chor-Pannika Wanich. He received a message from them that they wanted to send candidates to all 350 districts nationwide. Because if they did not send candidates to any district, the party-list votes would be lost. And he also knew that in Bangkok, they did not have candidates in every district. With the election system at that time, because no one knew the Future Forward
Party. He ran for MP in the district without hoping to win against the original political group that already had capital. But intended to run to collect party-list votes for the Future Forward Party. When he volunteered to do it, he was fully dedicated to campaigning until he won the election. That was the fate that brought him to this point.

‘Everyone may see that Mr. Chairat does not have much political experience, but I think that someone like Mr. Chairat will become someone like me in the future. During the Future Forward Party, we were criticized and looked down on. Will we really be able to do it? New MPs have never worked in the parliament. But today, it has been proven that in just two elections, we have become the political party that won the election in the number 1 position.’

‘Today, the time for change has arrived. In the next 20 days, enter the booth and mark number 1, link arms and go out. Show them your power that Ratchaburi must not be the same,’ Mr. Nattapong concluded.

Mr. Chairat said th
at he is one of those who have experienced the pain like all of his fellow citizens, but he is not used to that pain. Whether it is the problem of drinking water in the Ratchaburi Municipality area today, some days are clear, some days are cloudy, some days the water flows strongly, some days the water flows weakly. Where is the standard of tap water? Today, almost every household in Ratchaburi still buys drinking water or has expenses for installing water filters costing thousands or tens of thousands. These are living expenses. Government organizations should come in and take good care of them and make them of quality. Therefore, he proposed the policy of clear, flowing tap water 24 hours a day. We have already succeeded in doing this at At Samat Subdistrict Municipality, Roi Et Province, making tap water drinkable.

There are also other policies such as providing small water sources for small farmers, supporting the lunch budget, increasing foreign teachers in OBEC schools, increasing the service of existi
ng bus routes and improving their quality, making the PAO transparent, and broadcasting the council meeting live so that the public can monitor it. Therefore, please give me a chance to change Ratchaburi for the better. On September 1st, vote for number 1. -319

Source: Thai News Agency