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38 minutes ago, rooster59 said:According to electoral law, a criminal conviction could spell electoral disqualification for Thanathorn, who has looked set to become a member of parliament.
He will become a MP. He is yet to be eligible for trial by Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for political office holder like Yingluck. It will be a judiciary process of trials and appeals before it ends in the Supreme Court (hopefully not).
May take months if not years. By then he should be able to perform his MPs’ responsibilities. More concerning is that the EC is looking to take away 8 party lists from FFP.
Disgusting and disturbing actions by the junta government and their cronies trying to stop Thanathorn from upsetting the junta’s corrupt plan to take absolute power.
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10 minutes ago, yellowboat said:
Since the Army took over, I have never seen such an empowered and unaccountable civil service. The fact nobody won an award sort of proves the point they do not feel obliged to carry out good governance.
Sure hope these are the last days of general cha cha as coup leader.
Normally the case YB when the boss is corrupt and unaccountable, their minions will react the same. The junta has shown little accountability in raiding the reserve treasury to low and little accountability in showing off their corruption. No one allowed to question.
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NCPO will be so proud of their achievement. Meechai will take a victory lap.
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9 hours ago, newatthis said:Sadly, the latest news is that they decided to join the pro-junta party. What do you expect with the pushy ex-PDRC members?
The party has been held hostage by extreme right ex-PAD and PDRC members. Add to the fact that they have a weak leader who is willing to toss democracy to the wayside and take short-cut to fulfill his political ambition. I hope the young progressive members will leave and form another party. Dem Party is in a shit hole so deep that they will be unable to climb out of the abyss and position themselves for future elections.
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It was reported in Channelnewsasia that up to 66 seats in the constituency system are under investigation and could be disqualified, in a move that could shift yet-to-be release final results. These are seats that have the candidates won the highest votes and are now in doubt. The whole goal post may be shift by the time dust settled. Something smell real bad like a dying 'democracy'.
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7 minutes ago, GarryP said:
The gossip going the rounds is that Anutin has received orders not to join the Pheu Thai coalition and it would certainly not be in his best interests to disobey those orders from on high.
There was this rumour after the coup in 2014 that Anutin was the chosen one for premiership. Took a while and eventually come home to roost. Prayut passing the rein to him when things spiral out of control in Parliament seem a palatable scenario.
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Who pay for the new elections due to EC's incompetency. Tax payers or the EC?
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5 hours ago, webfact said:
What’s the problem?
Politics.
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1 hour ago, webfact said:On June 24, 2015, at about 10pm, a group of seven suspects was due to be charged in a martial court at Pathumwan police station but they escaped in a minivan that belonged to a firm owned by Somporn, Thanathorn’s mother.
The accounts from one of the 'suspects' Rangsiman was just the opposite. They were at Pathumwan police station to file a complaint that he and many other student activists were physically attacked by police and security officers at an anti-junta rally. They left the police station (not escaped) and Thanathorn gave them a ride. This is a deep state set-up to find excuse to cold storage Thanathorn for his big election win. Pathetic junta action against political enemies.
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13 minutes ago, Just1Voice said:
FFP is more of a threat to the junta than Phea Thai. The are young, educated, and don't buy into the old crap. My wife, at 60 years of age, and all of her friends, voted FFP. My daughter, in her final semester of law school at Mae Fah Luang, said she, and every one she knows, voted FFP. FFP is the biggest threat to the military dinosaurs since Thaksin.
Youth activists have lead some of the famous movement that have make dramatic changes and shaken many establishments.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/youth-activism-young-protesters-historic-movements/
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10 minutes ago, Cadbury said:
The men in power you refer to are the likes of General Apirat whose daddy was General Sunthorn the head of government from 1991 to 1992 after a coup against a former coup leader.
It seems General Apirat is genetically designed to become the next coup leader and unelected PM to replace the incumbent PM Prayut.
After his recent ugly rant against democracy and the Future Forward party in particular it seems only a matter of time before he takes control. Compared to the relatively harmless PM Prayut this will likely be a frightening prospect for Thailand.
His loyalty to that someone make him even more dangerous. Likely more ruthless and unwavering in his manner to maintain status quo for that someone.
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38 minutes ago, hotchilli said:
If the EC decide to award the win to the Pro Junta party & keep Prayut in power then expect all sorts of revenge attacks to start around the country.
Many anti-Prayut people will not sit idly by & be dictated to by a rigged election!
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31 minutes ago, sjaak327 said:
There is really only one thing left to do. The constitutional Court needs to declare the elections null and void.
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They only do that with elected government that the establishment don’t like.
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51 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:This is not about forest fires. That is a ruse and a cover up. It is primarily about the burning of cane, diesel power plants, and diesel vehicles.
The ironic and sad aspect of this, is that an administration that has done less than zero about this issue for nearly 60 months, now says it should be resolved within a week. Who are they fooling? Does anyone buy into the current concern about this epidemic? This is really about incompetence, gross indifference, and a hapless administration that has failed it's people on dozens of different levels.
The Thai people simply must figure out a way to get rid of the army. They must find new leaders who are not corrupt, who care, who are earnest about finding solutions, and who are not hypnotized by power.
Shouldn’t be surprise if the junta leader does nothing on this issue and any other issues that have no benefits to him. They seized power and are not accountable to the people. They are not elected officials and don’t need to face the electorate. He can say and promise just about anything without any accountability and he use intimidation if those spoke against him.
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48 minutes ago, rkidlad said:Are some posters on here beginning to connect the dots yet?
No say the ‘but but Thaksin’ brigade,
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20 minutes ago, bannork said:
Pheua Thai have tried to paint the election in those terms, describing themselves as pro-democracy.
The owner isn't but he could be described as more democratic than Uncle Tu. It's all relative.
The academics were already labeling this election as pro-democracy against pro-military even before official campaigning started. The media were reporting almost daily between these 2 election sides. Just one for your consumption below.
The narrative that it was PTP that coined that was only propagated by Thaksin haters as it was just so convenient to blame all to him. Nothing is relative between one who stand for election and one who seized power and rigged the rules in order to steal an election; period.
And the bit about Thaksin's involvement is rich. EC has been trying to find evidence to link Thaksin's influence in order to dissolve the party but unable to find anything but yet we have posters here that will swear that he was involved.
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"Experts see little changing after Prayut’s visit, blame govt’s policy to push corn cultivation".
And who owns the corn plantation? Big corporates; friends of the junta.
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16 minutes ago, SheungWan said:
Its good to see the Thaksinistas back with their "Its Not About Thaksin" mantra. Nostalgia Time. Odd move though by Thaksin to try and rope in an inappropriate person to run for PM although it didn't work out too well. Surely Thaksin hasn't run out of siblings and other relatives?
Then you got to credit the first posting to try divert and confuse by bringing Thaksin into the conversation when all media described this election as pro-democracy against pro-military fight.
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Just now, candide said:
Whatever the true number of killed people, there should be an extensive investigation about this event. It will never happen.
I see similarity with Thaksin war on drugs resulting in deaths and Ahbisit/Suthep killings of the red shirts. investigations were completed but none implicated. Thailand remain trapped in the shadows of despair.
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26 minutes ago, WeekendRaider said:
this is no PR stunt. for many people, and especially today it sure seems to me, the idea that their important leaders share their feelings on stuff is very important to them. it's not for me and some of us, but for many it is. and the leader doesn't have to actually do anything and what they say doesn't even have to make any sense. and it works! so it's good.
Not so much for Prayut as he has no accountability to the people. See, he don't even need the people's mandate to be PM. He don't have to do or say anything smart to be leader of the country.
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1 hour ago, VocalNeal said:
Never been to Indonesia then?
Why is it that Thailand seems to attract chicken littles. Is it because TV gives people a forum to complain?
On the Telegraph Map Thailand fares no worse than Indonesia.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/most-polluted-countries/
Here we are 474th way behind Jakarta and Bandung.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-polluted_cities_by_particulate_matter_concentration
Is it because we stay here and not Indonesia.
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1 hour ago, pornprong said:
Or perhaps the man is not as big a fool as he appears to be.
The events of 1992 may be vividly on his mind.
Having mounted the tiger, he now faces the all too certain eventuality of facing a most difficult dismount.
I give him the discredit for rekindling the students 1992 spirit. Lost for 2 decades but now awakened to challenge the junta's authoritarianism ambition. If he dismount, he will probably step on a land mine. Either way, it wouldn't be pretty.
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1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:So people from these "new democracies" shouldn't preach to Thailand but perhaps, given the current situations in the UK, USA, France, Australia and Canada worry more about this paragon of democracy called Western democracy. Seems to be in decay and being revealed for what it has sadly become, corrupt.
What the western democratic countries are preaching is universal suffrage not western style democracy. Western democracy is facing severe challenges but none have displayed propensity towards coup as a solution.
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1 hour ago, Roadman said:
It depends would you consider as improvement. If you considered public safety and security and peacefulness then that has been a major improvement under the Junta's control without Thaksins thugs under Chalerms direction murdering and bombing innocent citizens and creating war zones on the streets of Bangkok. Economy is certainly up for debate but under the likes of thieves like the Shinawatra's the billions getting siphoned off into their personnel accounts and their stoogies fat pockets might get close back to covering the Junta's take and incompetence.
Hyperbolical at its best.
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Thailand's rising political star charged with sedition
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The hundreds that turned up was impressive. You got to remember that Thailand still under a post coup military junta with draconian laws and intimidation detergents. Four companies of 620 policemen were deployed with barriers placed at critical locations. Yet hundreds turned out.
12 representatives from 10 counties were at the scene and shook his hands in a show of support. The world took notice in this shenanigan.
He displayed the 3 fingers salute and that symbol was all over social media and perhaps globally. The protest albeit only hundreds carried a big message of defiance to the whole country and globally,