Last year’s byzantine Senate elections had represented a triumph for the Bhumjaithai party, as with as many as over half the newly elected Senators having apparent affiliations with the Bhumjaithai Party. (Some even speculate this number to be closer to 150-170 out of 200 upper house members). The Standard provided three examples of upper house members with a “dark blue” (the color of Bhumjaithai) hue: those with links to Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul, former Bhumjaithai candidates for the lower house, and those with ties to the Buriram political machine that Bhumjaithai counts as its local capital. But last year, the implications of having a dark blue senate was not yet clear.

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