Democrat Spokesman Wants Govt. To Remove Thaksin Regime

[Jai Dee]

Democrat Spokesman wants govt. to remove Thaksin Regime

The Spokesman of the Democrat Party, Mr. Ong-art Klampaiboon, would like the interim government to inspect, supervise and prevent the expansion of the “Thaksin Regime” in terms of personnel, budget and state mass media.

Mr. Ong-art said the government is currently working in a normal state of affairs. However, he said the present situation is atypical, and the government still shares a main obligation with the general public and the Council of National Security (CNS). The obligation is to remove the “Thaksin Regime” out of Thailand. Mr. Ong-art is concerned about the personnel who can infiltrate the government agencies, the budget that has been allocated over the past five to six years, and the state mass media.

As for the statement made by Mr. Noppadol Pattama, the legal advisor to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, he insisted that there are no undercurrent issues. However, Mr. Ong-art responded that actions should be regarded more than words. Thus, people should be more considerate when listening to such statement.

The Democrat Spokesman said the interim government does not need to worry about the plan of the Thai Rak Thai Party to set up a committee to inspect the performances of the CNS.

He said the government has shown a clear stance that it is working truthfully and righteously.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 24 October 2006

[chownah]

The Democrats want Thai Rak Thai gutted?....this couldn't have anyting to do with politics could it?

Chownah

[farangsay]

I know I'm missing something here , but didn't Gen Sonthi et al already

remove the "Thaksin regime" ?

Removing every pro-TRT stooge from every state agency would

require an extensive and painful purge.

Patience ?

[hammered]

The previous government did spend an inordinate amount of time, energy and money making sure its acolytes and proxies filled any position of any importance throughout Thai institutions. No doubt many of these are still in place.

[ColPyat]

The previous government did spend an inordinate amount of time, energy and money making sure its acolytes and proxies filled any position of any importance throughout Thai institutions.

And the present government does exactly the same.

[hammered]

The previous government did spend an inordinate amount of time, energy and money making sure its acolytes and proxies filled any position of any importance throughout Thai institutions.

And the present government does exactly the same.

Yes they will, but it takes time, and to be honest it is arguable that because so many previous governments were short lived and coalition based that any had spent the time and effort that TRT did in filling quite so many positions with their own. In some ways it was TRTs attempt to dominate the whole politcal arena that marked it out as different from previous governments and parties.

Whether the future will hold more of large parties or there will be some reversion to coalition government will be interesting.

[cclub75]

You don't get it : the government has a much more important (and doable) mission than hunting down the Thaksin's apparatus : ban alcohool advertising.

OK, OK, i'm a little bit harsh...

But it's interesting to note more and mores people (media, scholars, politicians) who start to show like a bit of impatience and disappointement...

I think this feeling is really growing.

[hammered]

You don't get it : the government has a much more important (and doable) mission than hunting down the Thaksin's apparatus : ban alcohool advertising.

OK, OK, i'm a little bit harsh...

But it's interesting to note more and mores people (media, scholars, politicians) who start to show like a bit of impatience and disappointement...

I think this feeling is really growing.

You are right. There seems some frustration in some sectors in not moving more or more quickly aginst the previous government. However, maybe the previous governments filling of so many positions at different levels with its own people makes it difficult to move quickly. Interesting times.

[chownah]

You don't get it : the government has a much more important (and doable) mission than hunting down the Thaksin's apparatus : ban alcohool advertising.

OK, OK, i'm a little bit harsh...

But it's interesting to note more and mores people (media, scholars, politicians) who start to show like a bit of impatience and disappointement...

I think this feeling is really growing.

You are right. There seems some frustration in some sectors in not moving more or more quickly aginst the previous government. However, maybe the previous governments filling of so many positions at different levels with its own people makes it difficult to move quickly. Interesting times.

Perhaps the new gov't likes alot of the TRT beaurocrats....they had the good sense to transition into the TRT structure because they know how to be a "team player" and so they are highly valued by the new gov't which is, after all, in the process of assembling its own team.....so.....the difficulty is that a quick and thorough purge would also throw out some of the best people and make them unavailable to the new gov't who need quite a few good team players and where do you look for good team players....why from a good team with a good track record which is exactly what the Toxin gov't was.

Chownah

[britmaveric]

Sounds rather undemocratic.

[sriracha john]

The previous government did spend an inordinate amount of time, energy and money making sure its acolytes and proxies filled any position of any importance throughout Thai institutions. No doubt many of these are still in place.

Yes indeed... six years is a long period of time to instill those folks... it will take quite a long time to sort them out.