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Of the 43 non voters, they didn't answer when their names were called to vote presumably, 33 were absent with some sort of excuse. But 10 that weren't absent simply didn't vote at all. Not even an abstention. Asleep? Or just couldn't be arsxd?

You mean, it's all a conspiracy?

And who's to say the Senate will accept a nomination from a coalition containing the MFP? Some senators have said they will never do that. Break this stranglehold right now. It's a dictatorship!

Nah, let's not. If the coalition refuse to renominate a different PM, then it would trigger a constitutional crisis. I wonder how long it would take the coalition to find the missing 51 votes amongst all the abstainers in both houses. The Senate's powers would be exhausted. There would be nothing they could do, except look incredibly foolish.

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I feel like we're staring at a crime scene. It's like a terrible injustice has been/is being committed against a whole nation by virtually one man. Maybe 2. I think the constitution of 2017 should be declared invalid, void, a terrible mistake. Scrub it out. Take out the Senate's powers. Something has to change. The Thai people have an elected government. It is in the main the one they voted for. They deserve better than the treatment they're getting. The parallels with their neighbouring countries are there for all to see. I mean, look at the evidence. The way it was introduced. Nobody could debate it, criticise it or talk against it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Thai_constitutional_referendum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Thailand Scroll down to 2017. It's mind boggling. Criminal.

I meant if he had enough votes

Seems MFP is a Jonah. PT will have to ditch them if they want their own PM. But will MFP even exist this time next week? If they're disbanded, they'll have to have a new election, surely? 151 empty seats in parliament?

Assuming Pita doesn't get the required votes, are enough senators PT sympathetic, to support PT's candidate if the coalition includes MFP? Some have said no way. So PT breaks the coalition with MFP and goes it alone with the whole of the Senate supporting their man, possibly. Or, PT forms a coalition excluding MFP. Or, BJT forms a coalition excluding both PT and MFP. Plenty of options there. But the same goes for Nowit. Thai politics.

Not sure I understand the question.

Oh my god, not the WEF!

Where in what you've posted here did you say that? And in any case, you get no cigar as 1 it was obvious to all that this was always on the cards, and 2 you've ruled yourself out of any sensible comment by backing an "all governments are bad, chaos is good" platform. And the "friend" was agreed to by 8 parties. And so far has granted Pita his request to vote on a another doomed amendment, this time to Section 212.

Ask me! What's the point of a silly emoticon?

Abhisit Vejjajiva. Born in Newcastle, UK. Eton and Oxford educated, mate of Cameron and Johnson. 27th PM of Thailand. Chinese heritage. Has dual UK/Thai nationality. The CC could have disbarred him from holding office, but he had more clout than Thanatorn and Pita, so held on. But was a total disaster despite all his advantages. Took the Democrat party virtually out of Thai politics to where it is now. Spineless, gutless, pointless. With their support, Pita would be almost over the line.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Thai_constitutional_referendum It was a stitch up par excellence. I'll stick to my original description of it. A nation mugged.

Not so. I've used Wise to transfer £ and $ to a European bank. Free.

I take it your money is in a Thai bank account? Otherwise, how are you going to buy Kryptonite on Bitkub, for instance? In fact, you could just dump it in your wallet so long as you've done your KYC. But depositing millions of $ into your US account? No questions asked? I could be missing something here...

Along with his 38%, he had the 28.86% PT vote to add, plus the other 6 parties in the coalition. The BumjaiRat party - well, no point in looking there; and as for the DemoRats, they should be sued under the Trades Descriptions Act, if there was such a thing here. The elephant in the room, I mean in the kitchen, there's another in the sitting room and probably several in the bedrooms, is the Senate. So even 70% is meaningless after Prayuth's dirty tricks. The 2017 Constitution was a mugging of an entire nation.

I think he's favoured amongst the business community. Very little info on him. Yes, too early to discuss as everything now in the hands of the CC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srettha_Thavisin

Quite simple really. If you're not sure, either check it out beforehand in the forum rules, or put the link in and see if the moderators take it out. They will explain why. But telling me to Google it is a troll. I think you're the third contributor to this thread that has failed to produce any links to claims they have made regarding MFP et al, and told me to go and find the links that they can't. I will start to report any more I see as unsubstantiated.

The coalition has already decided on the speaker, Wan Muhamad Noor Matha, previously the leader of the Prachachart party. As for the PM's job, if Pita can't get it, then hopefully it goes to PT, and the favoured candidate seems to be Srettha Tavisin. So much will depend on the CC ruling with regards to the continued existence of the MFP, if indeed that is on the agenda. A repeat of the ruling the court made against the Future Forward party in 2019 - is that really on the cards?

So which is your party of choice? You profess love for the Thai people. Don't you see any contradiction there, given the election results? They spoke, but you think they're wrong. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Thai_general_election

Links please

I don't get your opposition to policies in a country that isn't even yours. I'm not going to do your research for you. That's simply a trolling technique. Opposition to Myanmar murderers is not on your list? An utterly corrupt dictatorship in Cambodia? Where are the links to that? What, you never even read any of the parties' manifestos? Did you do any research at all?

He's the leader of the party that got the most seats in the House of Representatives in the recent election. Not bad from a standing start. He stood for what he believes in, and what he promised in his manifesto. He got the support on all those topics, yes, INCLUDING 112, from 14,438,851 Thais, 38% of the electorate, almost as much as the next two parties combined. Your comments are insulting to the Thai electorate who voted MFP in. He is standing by what he was voted in to do, and what he promised. It will probably cost him the job of PM, but for you to call him a fraud...