Topic - Pheu Thai Party

Pheu Thai Party (PTP) (, Phak Phuea Thai, For Thai Party) is a Thai political party founded on September 20, 2008, when it was expected that the People's Power Party (PPP), itself a successor party to former PM Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai (TRT), would be dissolved. - Source: Wikipedia

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