This week is the first real test of Thaksin’s prospects of coming back from the dead. The election of replacements to the executives of the disbanded People Power Party and Chat Thai Party (at least, the 29 of them who were “constituency MPs” – that is, elected in one, two, and three-member districts under the “block vote” system with nominal ballots) will go a long way towards showing how strong the newly formed Peua Thai Party really is. More importantly, the election result itself might help determine the PTP’s fate. …