By Cod Satrusayang

 

Voices inside Thailand’s main opposition party are growing increasingly confident that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha can be removed before May, several sources told Thai Enquirer on Thursday.

 

General and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has ruled the country since he took power in a May 2014 coup. The former coup leader used his military-appointed coup government to introduce mechanism that has allowed him to retain office after elections in 2019.

 

But increasingly, his position looks embattled. The ruling Palang Pracharat Party, which is the main party that backs Prayut, has suffered several high profile setbacks in recent weeks including a by-election loss in Bangkok followed by the expulsion of 21 MPs including power broker Thammanat Prompao.

 

Full story: https://www.thaienquirer.com/37585/pheu-thai-confident-it-can-remove-prayut-chan-ocha-by-may/

 

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10 minutes ago, webfact said:

that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha can be removed before May,

May be, but there will be another General or someone similar. Democracy in Thailand isnt a short term possibility!

Please guys, put your heart and soul into it. And let us know where we can send donations, to support this worthy cause. This dinosaur is responsible for bringing a once powerful and relevant nation to it's knees. He is incapable and highly destructive, beyond imagination, and he must be stopped, at all costs. The army must never be allowed to rule this nation again. And without the moral authority they once gone now, it is possible they never will impose their will on the people again. Let us hope the future looks brighter than the present. 

 

 

To be replaced by more of the same.

Narrator: so that the could be removed by coup again.......

Any "new" coalition will be severely hobbled by the constitution du jour, the 20-year "Plan", the current administration's self-granted pre-pardons, the courts and the powers that be.

 

Any new "government" would be subject to yellow protests as soon as they tried to do anything,

 

 

You'll need a whole lot of other dinosaurs to stumble into their well-appointed tar pits before any real changes get made here.

Here's hoping..????

impossible to remove him.....he has too many friends( senators) and other parties in his power....Even the EC , the constitutional court and maybe the army can not get rid of him.... Married with his job and country for eternity

5 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Be careful what you wish for…..

If Prayut goes,      does the Health Minister go too ?

About bloody time!  The idiot is ruining the Country, pandering billions upon billions to the Military, buying useless unnecessary equipment.  Too bad his replacement likely will be similarly a Non-Progressive with a stick up his rzz.

Just now, actonion said:

If Prayut goes,      does the Health Minister go too ?

Please yes!

2 minutes ago, Jerno said:

Please yes!

I second that 

5 hours ago, Thailand said:

To be replaced by more of the same.

Exactly.......better the devil you know......imagine if Thamanat worms his way into power.

Where is that ever smiling general Apirat (spelling) ?

Surely he’s lurking in the shadows ready to pounce for king and country.

The whole lot need to go—we all know that—and the narcissist army put in its place where it belongs. Sure, a worser dinosaur could come in but it would be a start. Might just embolden ordinary Thais to realise the impossible and get their country back!

I expect a massacre some time in the next years. The blood of the martyrs will turn the streets of Krung Thep red insh'Allah.

56 minutes ago, Willy Wombat said:

Where is that ever smiling general Apirat (spelling) ?

Surely he’s lurking in the shadows ready to pounce for king and country.

I thought he was ever crying?

Rather doubt it that he can be removed politically.

6 hours ago, Thailand said:

To be replaced by more of the same.

My fear is Anutin will be pushed to the top spot... backed by another hoard of trough feeders.

A change but not for the better.

I will make a most optimistic prediction. If they lose, there will never be another military coup here. Think about it. The moral authority that backed the coups in the past, is long gone. 

 

Nah. Won't happen. The Thai army does not have the guts for it, and the Thai soldiers, and the families of the soldiers would never tolerate their sons murdering innocent Thais. And the Thai soldiers are not facing the level of desperation the young Burmese are. The poverty here is not as grinding as it is in Burma. I do not think it could be sustained, if the fools started it. Thailand is a very different culture than Burma, on a dozen significant levels. And the youth now, are very different people than they were during past coups, which were violent.

 

The army is in a difficult position now. If voted out, they would have to accept it. The generals would have to be content with their massive fortunes. 

 

30 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

the youth now, are very different people than they were during past coups, 

That's true. But look at the protests in last months and years....Protesters end up in jail.

And their ideas are not backed by Thai majority. Not yet.

????

7 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Please guys, put your heart and soul into it. And let us know where we can send donations, to support this worthy cause. This dinosaur is responsible for bringing a once powerful and relevant nation to it's knees. He is incapable and highly destructive, beyond imagination, and he must be stopped, at all costs. The army must never be allowed to rule this nation again. And without the moral authority they once gone now, it is possible they never will impose their will on the people again. Let us hope the future looks brighter than the present. 

 

 

not sure replacing him will improve anything, a bit too late

 

unless they bring back a real natural leader, like Thaksin ????

 

39 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

That's true. But look at the protests in last months and years....Protesters end up in jail.

And their ideas are not backed by Thai majority. Not yet.

????

Because the power is still in the hands of a few generals, but even that is breaking down. Prayuth and Prawit are on the way out and there is a much biggger split in the military. A lack of trust between generals from different camps (Queen's Guard vs King's Guard). Hence the changes at the top by the top. 

 

As to whether the protesters ideas are backed by the majority or not, I think you would agree that traditional support on the yellow side has dropped considerably. Maybe some of their ideas go against the grain, but many of them are valid demands that should be acceptable to both sides, and are far from extreme. I personally have been surprised by the number of people who I would have sworn were traditionally yellow, who have spoken out against the current regime/system. They are not youngsters either, people in their 50's, 60s and 70s. The demographic that traditionally doesn't want to see change.   

19 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Because the power is still in the hands of a few generals, but even that is breaking down. Prayuth and Prawit are on the way out and there is a much biggger split in the military. A lack of trust between generals from different camps (Queen's Guard vs King's Guard). Hence the changes at the top by the top. 

 

As to whether the protesters ideas are backed by the majority or not, I think you would agree that traditional support on the yellow side has dropped considerably. Maybe some of their ideas go against the grain, but many of them are valid demands that should be acceptable to both sides, and are far from extreme. I personally have been surprised by the number of people who I would have sworn were traditionally yellow, who have spoken out against the current regime/system. They are not youngsters either, people in the 50's, 60s and 70s. The demographic that traditionally doesn't want to see change.   

So far agreed.

However, even there would be a democratic government the system would be still the same.

(I hope you'll understand. I can't make it clearer).

So a real change is not in sight.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

increasingly confident that Prime Minister ................. can be removed before May

A possible reason for his Government buying new SWAT vehicles for the RTP??

7 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

A possible reason for his Government buying new SWAT vehicles for the RTP??

Wont need swat vehicles get him out, just tell him he has won some stupendous music award and it needs collecting

It is my understanding, and I could be wrong, that the constitution has a provision that permits military coups. Until this section of the constitution is removed (lol) then there will always be a general with ambitions of overthrowing a civilian govt.

And replaced with PM Anutin?