NCPO told to lift ban on political meetings

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NCPO told to lift ban on political meetings



BANGKOK: -- A core member of the Pheu Thai party has suggested that the National Council for Peace and Order lifts the ban on meetings of political parties now that the junta has decided to lift overseas travel ban on blacklisted politicians and political activists.

Welcoming the lifting of the overseas ban which will become effective as of June 1, former Lop Buri MP Amnuay Klangpha said on Saturday that the move would help ease political tension up to a certain level.

He argued that not all overseas travels are related to politics and several blacklisted politicians or political activists might have wanted to visit their children who are studying abroad but could not do so because of the ban.

Altogether 155 politicians and political activists have been banned from travelling abroad because they were critical of the regime or because they are deemed as political troublemakers.

Amnuay said he would prefer the NCPO to lift the ban on political meetings as well so that the junta will know what the politicians or political activists have been thinking toward the junta or the government or toward other political issues, for instance, the draft constitution.

Former deputy interior minister Pracha Prasobdee, a core member of the Pheu Thai party, said he believes political climate will improve if the junta has more trust on politicians and allows free expressions.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/165210


-- Thai PBS 2016-05-30

[NongKhaiKid]

Not told, asked or it was a suggestion. The headline is misleading but the more accurate ' suggested ' appears in the report.

The NCPO can't and won't be told to do anything by anyone other than the PM and definitely not by PTP.

[Plutojames88]

letting people leave means they have caught news in the wind their leadership is going to snag a reef and their anchor won't budge- so they are are cutting loose the Chain.

People will complain from abroad.

So it will only backfire.

The International community is going to have to act against them .

Enough is enough

So they are trying to soften the jack boot perception and try claiming that people are free to do stuff.

*Which could not be further from the truth

[mtls2005]

The process is:

1. pass charter

2. reforms

3. forming of political parties (yellow, cammo only, no red)

4. election(s)

5. protests

6. coup

7. return to #1

Not sure when reconciliation occurs? Maybe when they get snow in Thailand?

[chainarong]

The key word in this article is trust , in whom can you trust, seems to speak for itself really, trust me................................