PM Samak is not beyond taking risks with his minister. In addition to perennial hothead PC Chalerm serving as Interior Minister, the PM of the PPP has asked a nurse to act as the Deputy Finance Minister.
Qualifications?
Zero other than her marriage to a banned TRT politician.
If only I wasn’t a farang then I could get a job a Aviation Minister. Qualifications? I’ve flown Thai Air. Isn’t that enough?
The situation gets even better with the appointment of a construction executive to lord over the lucrative Transport Minister post. Nothing like giving jobs to those who learn as you go. This policy should make for fun in the months to come.
You are what you eat and no one knows that better than Samak, Thai TV #1 cooking host.
Simple foods for a simple man.
I couldn’t find the thai word for nepotism or simony.
But if you can’t help your friends, what the sense of being a politician.
The late-James Michael Curley, the mayor of Boston, took a civil service test for a badly-educated friend. He was convicted for this crime, but won the next election from jail with the campaign slogan.
“I did it for a friend.”
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