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Car crash no impediment to Smitthiphat poll win

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May 13, 2025

Smitthiphat Leenawarat, son of a prominent Pathum Thani politician, and his team of candidates unofficially won a municipal election on Sunday night following a traffic incident in which he sideswiped the pickup truck of an elderly couple and injured them in the middle of last month.

- PONGPAT WONGYALA

Car crash no impediment to Smitthiphat poll win

At his office on Sunday night, Krissada Leenawarat, father of the 28-year-old tambon Thanyaburi municipal councillor-elect, thanked local voters for trusting his family. He promised to take good care of local people in tambon Thanyaburi.

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