Politics Thai Opposition Slams Rally Figures for Encouraging Military Coup

[Hunz Kittisak]

37 minutes ago, angryguy said:

Do you? And are you implying thailand is a democracy?

Are you implying the last elections wasn’t democratic? The same one that your PP got the most votes. 

[angryguy]

1 minute ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

Are you implying the last elections wasn’t democratic? The same one that your PP got the most votes. 

My PP gets all the votes it can get

[Hunz Kittisak]

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

But the Peoples Party did NOT have a majority of the seats, so they could NOT form a government, and no other party wanted to join a coalition with them. Don;t you have ANY idea of how democracy works?

PP fanboys pls take note.

Know the difference between winning majority of seats and winning the most seats out of any other parties. 
After grasping this logic need to brush up on your math too. I’m all for another elections let’s see if PP can win more seats this time which I doubt 

[billd766]

4 hours ago, flexomike said:

Democratically elected PM? I must have been sleeping, missed that one.

In a democracy you vote for a political party. The party that forms the government then chooses the PM. The voters ONLY vote for a political party.

 

Yes, you must have been sleeping.

[billd766]

3 hours ago, angryguy said:

My PP gets all the votes it can get

Which were NOT enough votes to form a government, majority or coalition.

 

BTW do you own the PP?

[still kicking]

6 hours ago, John Drake said:

Prayuth was better.

Broken record

[bannork]

The trouble is Pheu Thai lied big time to the voters. They promised, and this included Pantongtaen, they would never join with the junta parties after the election 

And then they did to bring Daddy home.

Now, PT supporters will say, oh, every party breaks election promises, but this was a massive lie.

How many red shirts voted for Pheu Thai because they believed they wouldn't join with the junta parties?

Really, there should have been another election, costs all paid for by the treacherous Pheu Thai 

 

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[Hunz Kittisak]

3 hours ago, bannork said:

The trouble is Pheu Thai lied big time to the voters. They promised, and this included Pantongtaen, they would never join with the junta parties after the election 

And then they did to bring Daddy home.

Now, PT supporters will say, oh, every party breaks election promises, but this was a massive lie.

How many red shirts voted for Pheu Thai because they believed they wouldn't join with the junta parties?

Really, there should have been another election, costs all paid for by the treacherous Pheu Thai 

 

And aren’t the military out now? 
Thaksin picked them off one by one even BJT

It was all in the plan. Promise Fulfilled nonetheless. Next is to dismantle the unelected senate 

[bannork]

12 minutes ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

And aren’t the military out now? 
Thaksin picked them off one by one even BJT

It was all in the plan. Promise Fulfilled nonetheless. Next is to dismantle the unelected senate 

The current Thai government consists of Pheu Thai, United Thai Nation Party ( pro military), Democrat Party ( pro military), Chart Thai Pattana ( Conservative), Kla Tham ( has some military supporting MPs) , 

There are a few other small parties.

Thaksin's got a long way to go if he's going to purge all the military support in his government 

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, billd766 said:

But the Peoples Party did NOT have a majority of the seats, so they could NOT form a government, and no other party wanted to join a coalition with them. Don;t you have ANY idea of how democracy works?

TRUE democracy would have meant that the peoples choice at the ballot box would have given the Future Forward Party the government position.

NOT all the other parties voting for seats which can be rigged to get in.

That is NOT democracy

[JAG]

13 hours ago, Luuk Chaai said:

she was not elected by the people

 neither was the guy before her

Umh, nor was the guy before him.

If you may remember he (the guy before him) stopped an election because he didn't like the person and party which was winning. He then ruled as head of a Junta for 9 years. The principal achievement of that junta was to introduce the current constitution which is being exploited to attempt to remove yet another elected (although flawed) government.

 

These "constitutions" are hardly the sacred documents they are held up to be - there have been 20 in the last 90 years!

 

Nevertheless the present government was "elected" according to the principles stipulated by the current constitution.

[NoshowJones]

18 hours ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

They want to remove a democratically elected PM and government by whatever means possible even a coup. How democratic is that 

"They want to remove a democratically elected PM".  Democratically elected by who?? Unless I have missed something, certainly not by the Thai people.

[NoshowJones]

6 hours ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

And aren’t the military out now? 
Thaksin picked them off one by one even BJT

It was all in the plan. Promise Fulfilled nonetheless. Next is to dismantle the unelected senate 

Did the Senators another name for Generals ie the Military not stop Pita, the peoples choice from being PM by some formality?

[billd766]

1 hour ago, NoshowJones said:

"They want to remove a democratically elected PM".  Democratically elected by who?? Unless I have missed something, certainly not by the Thai people.

The voters in the UK for example don't vote for a PM either, They vote for a political party, and the party that gains the most seats overall, then selects the PM from its own ranks, just as happens in Thailand.

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[Hunz Kittisak]

7 hours ago, bannork said:

The current Thai government consists of Pheu Thai, United Thai Nation Party ( pro military), Democrat Party ( pro military), Chart Thai Pattana ( Conservative), Kla Tham ( has some military supporting MPs) , 

There are a few other small parties.

Thaksin's got a long way to go if he's going to purge all the military support in his government 

The election promise was not to align with the 2 main Thai military parties belonging to junta dinosaur generals only namely PPRP and UTN. 
PTP had to sleep with the enemy so to speak to get Thaksin back. 
Thaksin has done well to kick out the pro military enemies one by one keeping to PTP’s promise. Give him a little more time to finish the job.

[Hunz Kittisak]

2 hours ago, NoshowJones said:

Did the Senators another name for Generals ie the Military not stop Pita, the peoples choice from being PM by some formality?

Again you need to familiarise yourself with Thailand’s system. 
There’s is no ‘people’s choice’ for PM.

The PM is voted in by the members of parliament and the senate. 

[bannork]

1 hour ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

The election promise was not to align with the 2 main Thai military parties belonging to junta dinosaur generals only namely PPRP and UTN. 
PTP had to sleep with the enemy so to speak to get Thaksin back. 
Thaksin has done well to kick out the pro military enemies one by one keeping to PTP’s promise. Give him a little more time to finish the job.

Thaksin and his party blatantly lied to the Thai public regarding the pro junta parties. 

As you say, Pheu Thai slept with the enemy to get Thaksin back.

Pheu Thai could have joined with Move Forward to form a government, when the senators rejected Pita, then one of Pheu Thai's three candidates could have been proposed as PM.

But no, anything to get Thaksin back, stuff the electorate, PT join the enemy.