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Thailand’s Political Impasse: Mint Cocoa Sparks Betrayal Claims as Pheu Thai Courts Conservatives
”For Pheu Thai, don’t betray the people.” Angry Thais gathered at the Pheu Thai headquarters building in Bangkok to protest against the party’s contact with the party that supported the coup leader Prayut Chan-o-cha. The protesters’ props included a drink called Peppermint Cocoa. As one of the prime ministerial candidates of the Pheu Thai Party and the youngest daughter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in exile, Beton Dan, mint cocoa has become a “hot item” in the general election year and a symbol of the Pheu Thai Party. As the winner of the general election in May, Pita, the prime minister candidate nominated by the reformist far-reaching party, failed…