Singha heiress on a mission

BANGKOK: She is a poster child for a Thai elite campaigning to freeze democracy. But when Chitpas Bhirombhakdi is not on stage cheerleading for a self-styled “people’s revolution”, she is quietly preparing a bid for parliament.

It is a contradiction that highlights the dilemma facing Thailand’s oldest – but by no means most popular – political party, the Democrats, whose lawmakers recently resigned en masse from parliament to join opposition street protests.