去年,泰国南部地区(该地区以穆斯林人口为主)的暴力事件似乎对他信的雄心壮志有所打击，但其领导的泰爱泰党（TRT）在去年二月取得的压倒性胜利又重新鼓起了他争取地区领导人地位的信心。
Violence in Thailand’s predominantly Muslim south seemed to dent his ambitions last year, but his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party’s landslide victory last February gave his bid for regional leadership a new lease on life.