Acting Thai Senate President ready to nominate a neutral PM

mike2011 · May 24, 2014

A welcome development indeed. There was a stalemate in the country on a scale wholly unprecedented. It was going nowhere. It was all tangled up in knots. But that has changed. Completely. The rallies have stopped. There is peace on the streets of Bangkok. The violence, grenade attacks - all of that has ceased. The fiery speeches have ceased. Seven months of street protests have come to an end. The Senate, independent agencies, and the courts are fully functioning, and are operating safely and without intimidation for the first time in ages. And now a truly functional interim administration will be put in place, as opposed to the profoundly dysfunctional one that was the defining characteristic of the Yingluck administration. The Senate has been clear that they will choose someone acceptable to both sides. They are earnest in that. A bureaucratic administration will likely ensue. And then the process of talks will continue. Interim means, of course, interim - temporary. The goal of working towards a general election with a package of reforms that is the result of the pooled efforts and consensus of all parties will likely remain the primary goal. The Thaksin strings have been cut. What remains is much hope and a chance for a fresh start. It's as hopeful an outcome as one could have hoped.

The latest developments have shown that this is the assessment of a opportunistic fool.

We might not like the Thaksin gang or the yellow (why not brown??) shirts. What unites the Thail people now is that they have lost their fundamental rights.

Pattaya has volunteer tourist police. They have uniforms, stop people etc. Maybe some expats here can sign up with the generals. How to make the sale? They volunteer expat policemen have a bunch of excuses. Easy to google and adapt.

Strange how staying in Thailand erodes the few things western schooling should have taught some people about human rights, democracy etc. Sad.

Edited May 24, 2014 by mike2011

newcomer71 · May 24, 2014

A welcome development indeed. There was a stalemate in the country on a scale wholly unprecedented. It was going nowhere. It was all tangled up in knots. But that has changed. Completely. The rallies have stopped. There is peace on the streets of Bangkok. The violence, grenade attacks - all of that has ceased. The fiery speeches have ceased. Seven months of street protests have come to an end. The Senate, independent agencies, and the courts are fully functioning, and are operating safely and without intimidation for the first time in ages. And now a truly functional interim administration will be put in place, as opposed to the profoundly dysfunctional one that was the defining characteristic of the Yingluck administration. The Senate has been clear that they will choose someone acceptable to both sides. They are earnest in that. A bureaucratic administration will likely ensue. And then the process of talks will continue. Interim means, of course, interim - temporary. The goal of working towards a general election with a package of reforms that is the result of the pooled efforts and consensus of all parties will likely remain the primary goal. The Thaksin strings have been cut. What remains is much hope and a chance for a fresh start. It's as hopeful an outcome as one could have hoped.

The latest developments have shown that this is the assessment of a opportunistic fool.

We might not like the Thaksin gang or the yellow (why not brown??) shirts. What unites the Thail people now is that they have lost their fundamental rights.

Pattaya has volunteer tourist police. They have uniforms, stop people etc. Maybe some expats here can sign up with the generals. How to make the sale? They volunteer expat policemen have a bunch of excuses. Easy to google and adapt.

Strange how staying in Thailand erodes the few things western schooling should have taught some people about human rights, democracy etc. Sad.

Chapeau... +100 kudos, I agree on every single word you said.

smedly · May 24, 2014

A welcome development indeed. There was a stalemate in the country on a scale wholly unprecedented. It was going nowhere. It was all tangled up in knots. But that has changed. Completely. The rallies have stopped. There is peace on the streets of Bangkok. The violence, grenade attacks - all of that has ceased. The fiery speeches have ceased. Seven months of street protests have come to an end. The Senate, independent agencies, and the courts are fully functioning, and are operating safely and without intimidation for the first time in ages. And now a truly functional interim administration will be put in place, as opposed to the profoundly dysfunctional one that was the defining characteristic of the Yingluck administration. The Senate has been clear that they will choose someone acceptable to both sides. They are earnest in that. A bureaucratic administration will likely ensue. And then the process of talks will continue. Interim means, of course, interim - temporary. The goal of working towards a general election with a package of reforms that is the result of the pooled efforts and consensus of all parties will likely remain the primary goal. The Thaksin strings have been cut. What remains is much hope and a chance for a fresh start. It's as hopeful an outcome as one could have hoped.

The latest developments have shown that this is the assessment of a opportunistic fool.

We might not like the Thaksin gang or the yellow (why not brown??) shirts. What unites the Thail people now is that they have lost their fundamental rights.

Pattaya has volunteer tourist police. They have uniforms, stop people etc. Maybe some expats here can sign up with the generals. How to make the sale? They volunteer expat policemen have a bunch of excuses. Easy to google and adapt.

Strange how staying in Thailand erodes the few things western schooling should have taught some people about human rights, democracy etc. Sad.

It seems your schooling missed a few years - the part were we learned that having a convicted criminal billionaire living in a foreign country funding a group of terrorists cannot be allowed to run a country and claim it's democratic

hobz · May 24, 2014

No more a farce than the puppet governments of that crook in Dubai,

Being democratically elected must mean something?

If the people elect the sister of Thaksin, why are they not allowed to get what they wanted?

hobz · May 24, 2014

*removed my own post* realized i might be breaking the rules