Puea Pandin Party

Motherland Party (Thai: พรรคเพื่อแผ่นดิน, Pheua Phaendin Party) was a Thai political party active from 2007 to 2011.

It was founded on September 11, 2007, by more than 200 politicians including defectors from the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT).

The Pheu Pandin Party presented itself as a compromise party, a neutral and moderate alternative to the two main rivals, Democrat and People's Power Party (PPP). It included both former allies and opponents of deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his outlawed Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT). Its most notable members included Thaksin's former foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai, Suranand Vejjajiva and Preecha Laohaphongchana.Suwit Khunkitti and Watchara Punnachet have been elected party leader and party secretary general respectively. The party appointed Vatana Asavahame as the party chairman, and Police General Pracha Promnok as party chief adviser. General Panlop Pinmanee, adviser to the Internal Security Command Operation, accepted to become adviser to the party, overseeing security.

In the 2007 election, the party secured 24 seats and became a junior partner in the government coalition led by Samak Sundaravej and his PPP. Its representation increased to 32 seats after the Constitutional Court dissolved the ruling PPP in 2008 and its members defected to other parties. It changed its allegiance and helped to elect Abhisit Vejjajiva of the Democrat Party prime minister. Many of Puea Pandin's members of parliament defected to other parties ahead of the election in 2011, hoping to increase their chances of being re-elected. The remaining rump of the party merged into the Chart Pattana Party.

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