The Pheu Thai Party commands the support of more than 60% of the electorate in the northeastern province of Udon Thani, a traditional stronghold of the "red-shirt" United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), an opinion poll showed on Sunday.
Pheu Thai's Paetongtarn "Ung-Ing" Shinawatra leads other potential candidates for the post of prime minister with almost 50% of the vote, according to a survey by the National Institute of Development Association, or Nida Poll. The daughter of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was followed far behind by Pita Limjaroenrat of the Move Forward Party and current prime minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, now of the United Thai Nation Party.
