{"id":817,"date":"2011-08-18T22:22:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/?p=817"},"modified":"2011-08-08T22:25:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T22:25:23","slug":"election-related-vocab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/election-related-vocab\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Related Vocab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago Thailand had a very important election for the new Prime Minister. It was a very charged\/heated election &#8211; to put it nicely. If you\u2019re like me, you would be following Thai politics carefully and find yourself trying to explain (impose?) your version of democracy to everyone else. To help you with your intelligent discussions (heated arguments?), I\u2019ve compiled a list of government\/election related vocabulary words to help you get up to speed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Citizen \u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e0a\u0e32\u0e0a\u0e19 bra2 cha1 chon1<\/p>\n<p>Protest \u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e17\u0e49\u0e27\u0e07 bra2 tuwang3<\/p>\n<p>Protester \u0e1c\u0e38\u0e49\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e17\u0e49\u0e27\u0e07 puu3 bra2 tuwang3<\/p>\n<p>State \u0e23\u0e31\u0e10 rat4<\/p>\n<p>Government \u0e23\u0e31\u0e10\u0e1a\u0e32\u0e25 rat4 ta2 baan1<\/p>\n<p>Democracy \u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e0a\u0e32\u0e18\u0e34\u0e1b\u0e44\u0e15\u0e22 bra2 cha1 tib4 ba2 dtai1<\/p>\n<p>Dictatorship\/autocracy \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e01\u0e32\u0e18\u0e34\u0e1b\u0e44\u0e15\u0e22 eh1 gaa1 tib4 ba2 dtai1<\/p>\n<p>Military dictatorship <a href=\"http:\/\/thai2english.com\/dictionary\/1375138.html\">\u0e40\u0e1c\u0e14\u0e47\u0e08\u0e01\u0e32\u0e23\u0e17\u0e2b\u0e32\u0e23<\/a> pa2 det2 gaan1 ta1haan5<\/p>\n<p>Aristocracy \u0e2d\u0e33\u0e21\u0e32\u0e15\u0e22\u0e32\u0e18\u0e34\u0e1b\u0e44\u0e15\u0e22 tib4 ba2 dtai1<\/p>\n<p>Corruption \u0e04\u0e2d\u0e23\u0e31\u0e1b\u0e0a\u0e31\u0e48\u0e19 kaw1 rab4 chan3<\/p>\n<p>Vote (verb) \u0e40\u0e25\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e01\u0e15\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07 lueak3 dtang3<\/p>\n<p>Election \u0e01\u0e32\u0e23\u0e40\u0e25\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e01\u0e15\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07 gaan1 lueak3 dtang3<\/p>\n<p>Election Commission \u0e01\u0e01\u0e15. Gaw gaw dtaw\u00a0 (the abbreviation is easier to use\/remember)<\/p>\n<p>Buy votes \u0e0b\u0e37\u0e49\u0e2d\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e22\u0e07 (buy voice)<\/p>\n<p>Sell votes \u0e02\u0e32\u0e22\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e22\u0e07 (sell voice)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0e04\u0e19\u0e14\u0e35\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e02\u0e32\u0e22\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e22\u0e07 Thai politics\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6fs8A7YgqQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Constitution \u0e23\u0e31\u0e10\u0e18\u0e23\u0e23\u0e21\u0e19\u0e39\u0e0d rat4 ta2 tum1 ma1 nuun1<\/p>\n<p>Prime minister \u0e19\u0e32\u0e22\u0e01\u0e23\u0e31\u0e10\u0e21\u0e19\u0e15\u0e23\u0e35 naa1 yok4 rat4 ta2 mon1 dtree1<\/p>\n<p>Governor \u0e1c\u0e39\u0e49\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e23 puu3 waa3 gaan1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Red shirts \u0e40\u0e2a\u0e37\u0e49\u0e2d\u0e41\u0e14\u0e07 seua3 daeng1<\/p>\n<p>Yellow shirts \u0e1e\u0e31\u0e19\u0e18\u0e21\u0e34\u0e15\u0e23 pan1 ta4 mit4 \u2013 They aren\u2019t referred to as \u2018yellow shirts\u2019, but instead as the PAD.<\/p>\n<p>political party \u0e1e\u0e23\u0e23\u0e04 paak4<\/p>\n<p>Peua Thai Party \u0e1e\u0e23\u0e23\u0e04\u0e40\u0e1e\u0e37\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22 paak4 peua3 tai1 \u2013 The largest political party in Thailand since 2001<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Party \u0e1e\u0e23\u0e23\u0e04\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e0a\u0e32\u0e18\u0e34\u0e1b\u0e31\u0e15\u0e22\u0e4c paak4 bra2 cha1 ti4 bat2 \u2013 Second largest political party, also the oldest.<\/p>\n<p>Thaksin \u0e17\u0e31\u0e01\u0e29\u0e34\u0e13 \u0e0a\u0e34\u0e19\u0e27\u0e31\u0e15\u0e23 tak1 sin5 \u2013 The highly controversial previous Prime Minister<\/p>\n<p>Abhisit \u0e2d\u0e20\u0e34\u0e2a\u0e34\u0e17\u0e18\u0e34\u0e4c \u0e40\u0e27\u0e0a\u0e0a\u0e32\u0e0a\u0e35\u0e27\u0e30 aw2 pi4 sit2 \u2013 Previous Prime Minister from the Democrat Party<\/p>\n<p>Yingluck \u0e22\u0e34\u0e48\u0e07\u0e25\u0e31\u0e01\u0e29\u0e13\u0e4c \u0e0a\u0e34\u0e19\u0e27\u0e31\u0e15\u0e23 ying3 luck4 \u2013 Current Prime Minister, and sister of Thaksin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvisible hand\u201d \u0e21\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e21\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e47\u0e19 \u2013 The \u2018invisible hand\u2019 refers to the very powerful group in the inner circle of royalty, i.e. royals and those tightly connected to them. Anyone who publicly mentions anything about them risks imprisonment for a very long time \u2013 or worse. So the media simply says \u2018the invisible hand\u2019 as a safe metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c3<sup>rd<\/sup> hand\u201d \u0e21\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e2a\u0e32\u0e21 meu1 saam 5 \u2013 Some people felt that the \u2018yellow shirts\u2019 and \u2018red shirts\u2019 were peaceful, but there were more violent extremists and no-gooders trying to stir up trouble with grenades, etc. They as such were a \u20183<sup>rd<\/sup>\u2019 group, or 3<sup>rd<\/sup> hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMen in black\u201d \u0e04\u0e19\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e14\u0e33\u2013 After the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> army crackdown on the \u2018red shirt\u2019 protests began, and the army started moving in, a mysterious small group of heavily armed men wearing all black were filmed by the red shirt protesters shooting into the darkness. The videos don\u2019t show who they were firing at or who they were, and theories are controversial, but evidence seems to point towards an unknown extremist faction within the red shirt group with connections to the army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago Thailand had a very important election for the new Prime Minister. It was a very charged\/heated election &#8211; to put it nicely. If you\u2019re like me, you would be following Thai politics carefully and find yourself trying to explain (impose?) your version of democracy to everyone else. 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