We’ll resolve clash between political ban and parties’ need to fulfil organic law: Prawit

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We’ll resolve clash between political ban and parties’ need to fulfil organic law: Prawit

By The Nation

 

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The regime will provide a solution to the conundrum involving the political parties’ need to make arrangements for the national election and its keeping the ban on political activities in place, key junta figure General Prawit Wongsuwan said on Monday.

 

The deputy prime minister declined to give further details on whether the deadline for parties to complete their registration records under the organic political parties’ law would be extended, saying only that the regime’s legal department would take up the issue.

 

Despite the holding of Cabinet and National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) meetings on Monday, he said the regime had yet to assess the situation after the recent finding of weapons of war.

 

Some observers have speculated that the incident could affect the timing of the junta’s decision to allow political activities.

 

The ban on political activity is hindering parties from holding meetings despite the promulgation of the organic law, which requires them to complete the tidying up of their registration records by early January.

 

Prawit added that the media should see for themselves whether a revocation of the ban would fit the prevailing circumstances.

 

Because the new Cabinet has just taken office, ministers are working to adapt themselves to the new situation, he said, declining however to comment on the connection between the recent discovery of war weapons and the NCPO’s assessment of the present situation.

 

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[stephen tracy]

"finding of weapons of war" = planting the weapons of war

[Emster23]

Lots of pesticides here (see article from the other day about that). So many ways to die

[yellowboat]

No expert, but the "cache of war weapons"  seems rather diminutive and not sufficient cause to hold back elections, but this was inevitable as we all know.   

[klauskunkel]

As the pressure mounts to hold democratic elections, there will be more weapons caches found... It's a simple proportional function and quite predictable. The real question is: how far are you willing to go to hold on to power?

Edited December 5, 2017 by klauskunkel

[Eric Loh]

The conundrum is that the longer the junta delay election, the more the security issue. It is really a pressure cooker situation each day the junta hold on to power and the domestic economic problems continue to deteriorate. The election will help release some pressure; not the opposite. 

[YetAnother]

1 hour ago, yellowboat said:

No expert, but the "cache of war weapons"  seems rather diminutive and not sufficient cause to hold back elections, but this was inevitable as we all know.   

and the tenuous links between the weapons and political activity shows what a bunch of fools the junta thinks we are

[spidermike007]

The military realizes at this point in time, that they have waged the last peaceful coup, in the history of the nation. They simply do not have the moral backing they used to. So, the support they are accustomed to getting in the past, will not mean anything in the future. They are clinging to power, like a dying man in the middle of the Pacific Ocean clings to his lifeboat. They are utterly desperate, and will say anything. Like the goon on the other side of the ocean, they believe if you simply say it, a percentage of the population will believe it. Whether or not it is true or correct means nothing. 

[klauskunkel]

leads me to ask this: if there was no pressure to hold elections, would the junta have found weapons cache anyway?

[Baerboxer]

2 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

leads me to ask this: if there was no pressure to hold elections, would the junta have found weapons cache anyway?

 

We'll never know. Could be false flag; could easily be a sell out by some former red shirt. 

 

Convenient timing though.

[Happyman58]

2 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

leads me to ask this: if there was no pressure to hold elections, would the junta have found weapons cache anyway?

Because they were the ones who planted the weapons there  Take a look at the weapons they found I would say old army stock and how many Thais would have access to these weapons except the army

[Media1]

4 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

As the pressure mounts to hold democratic elections, there will be more weapons caches found... It's a simple proportional function and quite predictable. The real question is: how far are you willing to go to hold on to power?

They could find themselves invaded