Former Pattaya-area politicians hosted a Chinese New Year party for the city’s neighborhood leaders that stressed creating strong communities, not politics.
Ex-Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome, his brother Sonthaya, a former culture minister; former MP Santsak Jamroon Ngampichet, and previous members of the Pattaya City Council welcomed presidents and other representatives from Pattaya’s 42 community organizations at the Ban Huatung Community in Naklua Feb. 6.
As political rallies and gatherings are outlawed by the junta, the former Palong Chon Party members instead couched their gathering as a belated New Year’s/early Chinese New Year’s party with singing, eating, and dancing.
Blessings and good wishes for the new year were exchanged before the politicians delivered their intended messages to the crowd.
They said the party was organized to share knowledge, stress community management, strong leadership, morals, ethics and working for the public good. They laid out guidelines to reinforce love, unity and collaboration to make communities strong.
They said neighborhoods are made strong by emphasizing correct and clear communication, creating a teamwork relationship, possessing cooperation, making common goals and having efficient community management, awareness of roles of self-development, and creating good relations between communities and government organizations.
Therefore, the local presidents were told, community leaders must have wide vision, be able to communicate well both internally and externally, gather people having the same goals to work as a team, and exchange experiences.
