Very good news.Sense and Sensibility prevailing.
The PM Yingluck Shinawatra has pushed forward again that there will be a national election on February2.
Her government has done the right thing, even as a massive majority government, to take on board the complaints of the minority, the people of Bangkok, and has set an election date for all, and will do that... as it is the only legal and constitutional thing they can do.
The Army General who was the person in charge of the military coup that threw out her brother, Thaksin, has also said that the country needs a legal, democratic election and that the situation is quite different to that in 2006. This government has nothing wrong or illegal and they have bowed to pressure to have an election, and so the election must happen.
So even the Thai Army has come to the defence of the overwhelmingly democratically elected Government...a very rare thing indeed...the first time ever in Thailand.
So Thailand is not so much walking the path of Egypt, Myanmar or North Korea...which is a very good thing for all of Thailand and indeed all of Asia.
Thailand does have some economic problems related to the increasing well-offness of the poor farmers, for sure, but the Yingluck Shinawatra government seems on track to bring about such essential reforms even though the reforms will cost the Elite of Bangkok quite a bit of money they are used to having all to themselves to splurge in their city.
The PM Yingluck Shinawatra has pushed forward again that there will be a national election on February2.
Her government has done the right thing, even as a massive majority government, to take on board the complaints of the minority, the people of Bangkok, and has set an election date for all, and will do that... as it is the only legal and constitutional thing they can do.
The Army General who was the person in charge of the military coup that threw out her brother, Thaksin, has also said that the country needs a legal, democratic election and that the situation is quite different to that in 2006. This government has nothing wrong or illegal and they have bowed to pressure to have an election, and so the election must happen.
So even the Thai Army has come to the defence of the overwhelmingly democratically elected Government...a very rare thing indeed...the first time ever in Thailand.
So Thailand is not so much walking the path of Egypt, Myanmar or North Korea...which is a very good thing for all of Thailand and indeed all of Asia.
Thailand does have some economic problems related to the increasing well-offness of the poor farmers, for sure, but the Yingluck Shinawatra government seems on track to bring about such essential reforms even though the reforms will cost the Elite of Bangkok quite a bit of money they are used to having all to themselves to splurge in their city.
