Pheu Thai moves to accelerate the EC to hold a new round of general elections

[Mrgk]

Pheu Thai's ongoing level of discourse with the EC is always a fascinating focus in and of itself. The question in everyone's minds is - will they now actually meet ? Apparently not yet. Pheu Thai still can't bring themselves to acknowledge the Election Commission as anything other than something they can order about or threaten with litigation. Pheu Thai doesn't do personal appearances. And so, guess how they are communicating with the EC ? Through a letter. Which is expected to be received today ! Even that belies what the message of the letter is - and that is to arrange an election quickly. It's taken them a week and a half since the Constitutional Court's ruling, and suddenly they realize they need to have an election. Of course, Pheu Thai is quite excited about communicating the very contents of the letter in front of the cameras. Let's face it, Pheu Thai is really terrible at working with the EC. They prefer to talk " at them " instead, and preferably indirectly. So again, Pheu Thai is now back to the mindset that they can just tell the EC what to do. Pheu Thai has absolutely no concept of the " working together " principle that the Constitutional Court tried to remind them of. They just don't get it.

Didn't you mention in another thread that "the constitutional processes must move forward."?

I seem to remember elections being a constitutional process.

Hardly. In Scamperland sabotaging elections, nullifying elections and miltary coups are the height of constitutional propriety. (But, say, reverting to the pre-coup elected senate, or expecting the Electoral Commission to, well, actually hold elections, is a constitutional outrage.)

He expects the nasty reds to follow every rule in the book (even some that might strictly speaking not have been invented yet by the NACC/EC/CC), while "his" people have a licence to trample whatever rules they deem necessary to get their way. Truly a charming human being.

[dwcrist]

What he is proposing is not a People's Council. How does him having ultimate power represent the people? An election is how the people choose who to give power to. But his plan does not involve being granted power by the people. He has shown that he has no respect for the Thai people or the constitution. Suthep is trying to become more powerful than Thaksin ever was, except without being voted in. This is blatantly attempting a step away from democracy.