Suthep’s long and winding road [Opinion]

[webfact]

Suthep’s long and winding road

 

 

The Thai politics nowadays may be crawling with estranged allies. Sudarat Keyuraphan is said to have upset many in the Thaksin camp. Jatuporn Prompan is not seeing eye to eye with quite a few in the Pheu Thai Party. Abhisit Vejjajiva is torn between his abhorrence for the Shinawatras and fears that military influences in parliamentary affairs will spiral out of control. And if certain voices are really heeded, Chalerm Yoobamrung would not be leading Pheu Thai’s election campaign.

 

Those are old news, however, and current whispers are focused on two men who brought down the Yingluck government together.

 

With his massive and relentless anti-government protests, Suthep Thaugsuban staggered the Yingluck administration with the first blows. Then Prayut Chan-o-cha, army chief at that time, finished the job by staging a coup on May 22, 2014.

 

The coup ended the “Suthep fever” and made Prayut the new darling of anti-Thaksin Thais. And although Suthep spoke openly in support of the military intervention, a few curious things have happened since. The protest leader entered the monkhood. Another key protest figure, a belligerent monk, was arrested and defrocked. Suthep, after becoming a layman again, set up his “own” party instead of joining the pro-Prayut Palang Pracharat Party. New electoral rules prohibit Suthep’s picture from appearing in election posters or billboards. One case on the desk of the National Anti-Corruption Commission concerns alleged irregularities in the construction of police stations, a project related to Suthep while he was in power.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/sutheps-long-and-winding-road/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2019-01-03

[Thaiwrath]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

The coup ended the “Suthep fever” and made Prayut the new darling of anti-Thaksin Thais.

What is needed now is to end the 'Prayut disease', and find a new darling of the anti-Junta Thais.

[YetAnother]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Jatuporn Prompan is not seeing eye to eye with quite a few in the Pheu Thai Party.

that guy is the prototype of a case of people we just have to suffer with

[marko kok prong]

One can only hope it is a long and winding road to nowhere.

[Emdog]

He's harder to get rid of than herpes

[connda]

6 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

What is needed now is to end the 'Prayut disease', and find a new darling of the anti-Junta Thais.

Perhaps a Watch Commander? 

[from the home of CC]

power is considerably more addictive than meth as evident in this never ending circus...

[Odysseus123]

In any other country this "long and winding road" would lead straight to the sullage pit.

[scorecard]

9 hours ago, YetAnother said:

that guy is the prototype of a case of people we just have to suffer with

Haven't seen anything of the election chief adviser chalerm nor his sidekick oak.

 

What's happening?

[zzaa09]

10 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

What is needed now is to end the 'Prayut disease', and find a new darling of the anti-Junta Thais.

This has been tried numerous times in the past without prevail.

The disease that requires cleansing is the system of traditional military/Ammat patronage. 

 

He's just a pawn.....

Viewing the overall picture is of greater value.

[overherebc]

4 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

In any other country this "long and winding road" would lead straight to the sullage pit.

Or Brexit.

[Odysseus123]

13 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Or Brexit.

Brexit?

What,on earth,is that?

Sounds like some kind of Scandinavian pickled whale blubber sandwich...

[overherebc]

5 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

Brexit?

What,on earth,is that?

Sounds like some kind of Scandinavian pickled whale blubber sandwich...

Well, it has the same malodorous political stink.

[zzaa09]

35 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Well, it has the same malodorous political stink.

Yet, little to do with any such comparative notes as applied to Thai affairs.