Matubhum Party
The Matubhum Phak (Thai: พรรค มาตุภูมิ, RTGS: Phak Matuphum, pronunciation: [ p ʰ ák ma ː ʰ u ː m TUP ], on German about: Fatherland Party, English: Motherland Party ) is a small party in Thailand. Although it competes as a nationwide party, it is primarily a party of the Muslim Malay minority of southern Thailand.
Wahdah Group
The party emerged from the once of Wan Mohamad Noor Matha (Wan Noor ), a Muslim MPs from the province of Yala, founded Wahdah group ( from Arabic Wahda called for " unity, unity," as Wadah group). This group was originally an intergroup lobby Muslim deputy several parties that supported various governments to achieve reforms and improvements to their home provinces in the south. Wan Noor had initially Chavalit Yongchaiyudhs New Aspiration Party connected, which was later merged into Thaksin Shinawatra Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT ). Thaksin's government had the support of 15 Muslim MPs and five senators Muslim by 2005.
About the brutal actions of Thaksin in the fight against Muslim insurgency in the southern provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala, however, at odds with Thaksin and the now, which falls under the TRT Party Wahdah group. The Wahdah Group in 2005 initially lost their constituencies in southern Thailand. After the fall of Thaksin by the Muslim (but not malay -born ) army chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin and the prohibition of TRT and TRT 's successor party Phak Palang Prachachon (PPP ) a majority of Muslim MPs joined first the Matchima Party ( Neutral Democratic Party) and after the prohibition of the Puea Paendin Party (Party for the mother country), some of the Rassadorn Party ( people's Party ) and the PPP 's successor party, Pheu Thai Party ( PTP).
Matubhum Party
After the renewed fall of the Thaksin -affiliated coalition 2008, most Wahdah deputies of the Puea Paendin changed to now renamed Matubhum Rassadorn, including the deputy Pheu Pandin party leader and former Minister of the Interior Man Patanothai, the interim chairman of the Matabhum Party was. He invited both Chavalit and Sonthi you to cooperate. Chavalit refused in September 2009, initially working with Sonthi from and followed instead of the PTP, whose chairman he was in October 2009, while Sonthi was elected in November 2009 to Matubhum party leader and hopes for the inflow of further ex-military.
Had the Matubhum Party before the elections of 2011, although only three direct seats, including former members of the Group Wahdah in other parties but 10 to 20 deputies in both chambers of the Thai Parliament ( for example Areepen Uttarasin and Natmudin Yuma for the province of Narathiwat, Muk Sulaiman for Pattani and Farida Sulaiman Surin ). Sonthi said he was confident that the majority of the former Wahdah group will not migrate to Chavalit PTP. Sonthi wants his party to contribute neutrality (between the " red shirts " of the Thaksin camp and the royalist " Yellow Shirts " ) and reconciliation ( between Thais and Malays or Buddhists and Muslims as well as government and rebel ). He believed that he could unite the country and has his former political opponents of Chavalit PTP and gradually ends located in resolution Puea Paendin offered a later coalition.
After the elections of 2011 and the union of the Puea Paendin with the Chart Pattana Party, which has entered into a coalition with the PTP, Matubhum was able to win only two seats in Parliament and went into opposition - Sonthi helped secure initial list of space to re-entry, Anumat Zusaro a direct mandate for Pattani.