One of those “huh?” moments
This from the Bangkok Post:
The BlackBerry smartphones issued to 873 district chiefs nationwide were part of a marketing campaign by the distributor and were not funded by the taxpayers as the opposition claimed, Interior Minister and Bhumjaithai Party leader Chavarat Charnvirakul said on Monday.
“I don’t know why this has become such a big issue.
“It was part of a marketing campaign by the company’s executives, who want people to use the same model of handset,” Mr Chavarat said.
He said the Interior Ministry received the smartphones for free and they were distributed to district chiefs.
When asked by reporters if the cell phone distribution was part of the Bhumjaithai’s election campaign, the party leader laughed and said that was “nonsense”.
Interior Minister’s adviser Chamni Buchasuk said every ministry gave out cell phones to officials.
PPT eagerly awaits the confirmation of this from the unnamed distributor and from all the other ministries. District chiefs must each be walking about with 26 phones each! No sensible commentator could ever believe that the Bhum Jai Thai Party of Newin Chidchob and Sia Chavarat could ever be involved in trying to fix elections. Even allowing that it has little choice in the matter, the Democrat Party seems accepting of the notion that their coalition partner is above board.
Meanwhile, PAD has been emphasizing corruption in the Abhisit Vejjajiva government.
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