Updated: More junta campaigning

No electoral campaigning is allowed for Thailand’s political parties. But the junta can be on the campaign trail all it wants with all the resources of the state backing its “electioneering.”

The Bangkok Post reports The Dictator led his junta/cabinet to the north today, “on another two-day trek to … Phichit and Nakhon Sawan.”

The first stop in Phichit was at a temple where The Dictator will recharge his barami. He then  spent several hours in both places meeting the “people” he wants to vote for pro-military parties whenever the junta decides to hold its election.

If there’s no election, then this effort is part of building the junta’s image for a longer period of military domination.

We guess he also met with various influential persons who will be arm-twisted or sweetened up for supporting the regime and/or its parties.

Update: The Nation reports that the junta’s election candidate Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, on the campaign trail in the north reiterated his 2011 call for voters to elect anyone but the Puea Thai Party, preferably “good” people. He didn’t put it exactly in those terms. He said: “It starts from whether you will get a government with good governance. Please vote for people whom you trust, not only those whom you’re familiar with…”. He’s saying don’t vote for Puea Thai or the Democrat Party.