In 2007, average wages were over 30 times the statutory minimum wage. With the onset of the crisis, the Egyptian administration raised minimum wages by 30% in 2008 and then again in October 2010, setting them at EGP 400. The 2011 election in Thailand saw both main contenders enter into a bidding war, with the Democrat Party promising a 25% increase in minimum wages over two years and Puea Thai (who eventually won the election) promised a 40% increase. The elected president of Peru, Ollanta Humala, also ran on a platform that included a substantial 25% increase in minimum wages. Political debates on minimum wages seem more likely when, as in the Peruvian case, minimum wages have stagnated in real or even nominal terms for a number of years while the economy has grown. In the Russian Federation and Belarus, for example, minimum wages are not just low relative to national income, they are insufficient to sustain a family - as indicated by national poverty thresholds.