POLL: Corruption will drop under PM Prayuth

[Lite Beer]

POLL
Corruption will drop under PM Prayuth
The Nation

A worker cleans a spirit shrine at Government House yesterday before members of the new government move in. Members of Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha

BANGKOK: -- Some 78 per cent of respondents in a recent poll said they believe corruption will gradually be reduced now that Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha has taken over running the country.

The Bangkok Poll also found that 74 per cent of respondents believed the Prayuth administration was more transparent than the previous Yingluck government, while 60 per cent said they had confidence the National Reform Council would be able to help tackle corruption.

When asked if corruption would return after Prayuth was no longer in power, 41 per cent said it would but 44 per cent said it would continue to be reduced even after Prayuth is gone.

Confidence in the government was high among respondents, with 60 per cent expressing confidence in its purchases and hires, while 32 said they had no confidence in the interim regime.

Nearly half (49 per cent) said they had confidence that bureaucrats would not accept bribes while 40.6 per cent said they had no confidence.

Respondents were also asked if they found corruption acceptable. Some 86 per cent said they could not accept corruption because it was wrong, but 12 per cent said corruption was acceptable because many people engaged in it.

In a related development, former deputy Defence Minister General Yuthasak Sasiprapha said he had confidence in Prayuth's ability to run the country. Yuthasak said that in his three-year working

relationship with Prayuth, he found the Army chief to be a meticulous person who studied the tasks at hand. Prayuth was also experienced both militarily and scholastically, he said.

Asked if he had been approached to advise the new government, he said the government should be given time to run the country first.

Yuthasak said he would remain a brother to Prayuth till death, and someone whom he could always call on to discuss personal matters. Prayuth had his best wishes for successfully running the country.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Corruption-will-drop-under-PM-Prayuth-30242666.html

-- The Nation 2014-09-06

[NongKhaiKid]

It may drop, depending on which figures are used and released, under the junta but just wait to the politicians get back into power and make up for lost time !

[jaidam]

I will only believe they are sincere when the cabinet does a staged photo op in front of a huge anti-corruption banner and they are all peeing their pants laughing as if they just heard the funniest joke ever(which last time they actually had, that the Shins were going to end corruption).

[chainarong]

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It may drop, depending on which figures are used and released, under the junta but just wait to the politicians get back into power and make up for lost time !

Hear hear., never a truer word said.

[kurnell]

Thais love corruption, from the beggar on the street to the prime minister. It ain't gonna end.

[tomyummer]

It is all part of the show. Snipping off the top of the corruption tree still leaves the rest of branches, trunk, and roots. It will all grow back.

[NanLaew]

No noticeable change expected from the NL camp.

Corruption is embedded and enabled by the feudal patronage culture of this country.

I have only caught one of Prayuth's stream of consciousness diatribes "live" but I don't recall him seeking a cultural change in Thailand or reading of such a desire in the variously sycophantic 'translations' of his Word.

Edited September 6, 2014 by NanLaew

[rametindallas]

Corruption will drop under PM Prayuth

I can hardly see it going up, compared to the last Yingluck Thaksin government. In the short time the General has been in charge, corruption has already markedly dropped with the clearing of the beaches and ending of rice subsidies, extortion of MC taxis, fake land deeds/forest encroachment, illegal logging, ending government employee junkets abroad on the taxpayer's money, firing unqualified board members from government enterprises, etcetera, etcetera.

[tbthailand]

another poll asking if the junta is doing / will do a good job.

yes sir!

[tbthailand]

the military is one of the most corrupt ridden parts of Thailand. The junta will make sure there are 'headlines' about corruption.

It's just the magician's waving hands.

[FangFerang]

Since the people in Bangkok and the Bangkok power brokers stopped elections in their country (where Bangkok citizens are a minority) it seems weird that only Bangkok residents were polled. The article even stated it was a Bangkok poll.

Shenanigans!

[Halion]

A good start would be to see that those responsible for the rice scandal are duly prosecuted to the full extent of the law regardless of position. Anything less would indicate a total lack of sincerity.

[j15mth]

Like Thai Customs officers have misplaced 500 Super Cars I guess.

[BSJ]

Corruption is in most countries to some degree so I fail to see how it will be stamped out here.

[ginjag]

Corruption is in most countries to some degree so I fail to see how it will be stamped out here.

Corruption is everywhere, in the streets of London to the Dem-Rep-Congo. No one can eradicate the common cold.

In Thailand as in some similar emerging countries, it is riddled to the core but that does not mean you cannot stop it at the top level, and even government departments. In the home, travel sectors, border areas and in the street it will always be a no no.

[ginjag]

Since the people in Bangkok and the Bangkok power brokers stopped elections in their country (where Bangkok citizens are a minority) it seems weird that only Bangkok residents were polled. The article even stated it was a Bangkok poll.

Shenanigans!

Never mind if it was BKK, or Mongolia. the fact is all city and towns are now aware of the fingers pointing in directions of the main offenders so it already has the fear effect, therefore it has to be on the decline --imagine if you an official involved in a town gov., department is into it, he/she is going to either resign or creep into a hole.

[Pinot]

There is a lot of negativity here, as usual. All you old pucks are so knowledgeable.

I've been amazed at the results here in Phuket. I'm hopeful that it continues.

[Somtamnication]

No kidding! When you have an M16 pointed at your head, everything drops, including corruption.

[laurentbkk]

Just one question : Do the military are also corrupted ? I remember a few cases in the last 21 years I have spent here

[kinmaew]

Pigs F Arse. When I was trying to get a taxi late at night from Nana to On Nut it was "How much can you give" I reminded him of his new boss Prayuth saying no more corruption and I was told to "Go Away". You can copy and paste this scenario to any situation you like in Thailand.

[millwall_fan]

Under military censorship, if the poll had concluded that the people didn't think corruption would drop under the dictatorship, it would never have seen the light of day.

Like most polls in Thailand -even before the junta stole power - the methodology is hopelessly flawed and the results utterly meaningless.

[dominique355]

Mostly wishful thinking...

[KhnomKhnom]

No noticeable change expected from the NL camp.

Corruption is embedded and enabled by the feudal patronage culture of this country.

I have only caught one of Prayuth's stream of consciousness diatribes "live" but I don't recall him seeking a cultural change in Thailand or reading of such a desire in the variously sycophantic 'translations' of his Word.

On screen translation into English .... he said he felt it may take two or three generations to work Thailand out of its culture of corruption....... this General is smart.

[Thai at Heart]

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It may drop, depending on which figures are used and released, under the junta but just wait to the politicians get back into power and make up for lost time !

Hear hear., never a truer word said.

Am not quite sure what prrof any one has to beleive that corruption is going to fall at all.

It might it might not. Other than that, the only good corruption level.is as close to zero as possible.

[jimbeam1]

I have no doubt that corruption will be reduced. That is the number of corrupt will be reduced. Keep it more in the family and better controlled.

jb1

[manhood]

Corruption in this country is everywhere, accepted by anyone! It would be sooo nice to believe and dream corruption will come to end as a dayly apperiance!

And officials are mostly involved in any way of corrution in this country! So wait and see if thais mind is changeing!

[horisize]

Corruption cannot be faught. Corruption must be repaired. The system itself is the perpetual force of corruption. We do not follow laws of nature and base our life on love but fear and envy. Funny how enlightenment is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind after living in Asia for over a decade.

[NativeSon360]

[ezzra]

Yes it will, from a 100% now to 90%..... and the pundits still be right...

[Bender]

they are not even able to clean a sidewalk or a beach, and they talk about corruption

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/757929-clip-of-beach-mafia-controlling-the-area