Nepotism Can't Be Good For The Party Or Country: Thai Editorial

[Baerboxer]

Thaksin says he just wants Yaowapa to help Prime Minister Yingluck with parliamentary work

Once again the man who doesn't want a position, and just wants to come home, demonstrates to the world that he runs things already. A fugitive from justice that is in no danger of being arrested when he returns but is still too cowardly to come back.

Does the PM actually ever do any parliamentary work? Maybe big sister will help keep the minions in line and expedite whitewashing and return of the working class hero.

[daboyz1]

Assuming power given to you by coup takers

I see you still don't understand how things work in a constitutional monarchy. After the coup, there were elections. PPP (the predecessor to PTP) and their coalition partners won the elections in December 2007.

A coalition partner decided they didn't want to be part of that coalition any longer, and joined up with the democrats. The new coalition then had a majority of MPs, and Abhisit was made PM. No power was given to anyone by the coup makers. Last I checked one of the coup-makers is a member of the PTP now.

I'm starting to think they should post this at the beginning of every thread here related to the past 8 years of Thai politics. This is roughly the 100th time I've pointed this out here. I'm American and I get how it works.

[daboyz1]

Is bush junior being president after dad has had a go an example of nepotism and cronyism? Or the fact that a brother is governor of a state. Or that dad was CIA?

Sure they all went through elections. Current Thai pm went through elections too, didn't she?

not supporting state of affairs in Thailand, where you actually need an article like this to state the bleeding obvious. But where and how do you draw the line?

Another example is Lee junior as Singapore pm. By all accounts, he is very smart and capable, but still a son of a ex pm.

Did the current Thai pm go through an election? Or is she a party list MP appointed to the top job by her brother?

I don't understand why people can't grasp how the political system works here. The current Thai PM (Yingluck) hasn't personally won any election. You are 100% right. She was a party list MP.

[Curt1591]

The elected officials are one thing. But, it's the nepotism and cronyism that brings in the real slime, the clowns that could never be elected into office.

[Thai at Heart]

Assuming power given to you by coup takers

I see you still don't understand how things work in a constitutional monarchy. After the coup, there were elections. PPP (the predecessor to PTP) and their coalition partners won the elections in December 2007.

A coalition partner decided they didn't want to be part of that coalition any longer, and joined up with the democrats. The new coalition then had a majority of MPs, and Abhisit was made PM. No power was given to anyone by the coup makers. Last I checked one of the coup-makers is a member of the PTP now.

I'm starting to think they should post this at the beginning of every thread here related to the past 8 years of Thai politics. This is roughly the 100th time I've pointed this out here. I'm American and I get how it works.

We won't ask, the context and how it came about that some coalition partners jumped and who was involved in brokering the discussions.

[daboyz1]

Assuming power given to you by coup takers

I see you still don't understand how things work in a constitutional monarchy. After the coup, there were elections. PPP (the predecessor to PTP) and their coalition partners won the elections in December 2007.

A coalition partner decided they didn't want to be part of that coalition any longer, and joined up with the democrats. The new coalition then had a majority of MPs, and Abhisit was made PM. No power was given to anyone by the coup makers. Last I checked one of the coup-makers is a member of the PTP now.

I'm starting to think they should post this at the beginning of every thread here related to the past 8 years of Thai politics. This is roughly the 100th time I've pointed this out here. I'm American and I get how it works.

We won't ask, the context and how it came about that some coalition partners jumped and who was involved in brokering the discussions.

From what I recall it had something to do with Newin Chidchob and the MPs lined up with him moving to the Democrats.

Thaksin probably didn't send a big enough wedding gift to his daughter's wedding or something minor like that. Who knows.

I just get tired of hearing how Abhisit was chosen PM by the folks who staged the coup. That's just factually inaccurate. But of course facts have never gotten in the way of Thaksin and his ilk playing the victim in the whole mess. I'm real curious to see what's going to happen now that big sis is an MP. Somehow I think Yingluck is going to have alot of time for shopping in the near future.