BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): The Democrat Party will contest all 500 seats in the House of Representatives in the upcoming election, party leader Jurin Laksanawisit told a general meeting of party members on Thursday (Feb 23) night.
He also delivered a pep talk and summed up the party’s campaign pledges to attract rural voters. These include a guaranteed minimum income for farmers, expediting the issuing of land titles for farmers, free milk for school students, and two million baht in funding for every “village bank”.