Prawit confident Thailand's political transition will be smooth

[webfact]

DPM confident nation's political transition will be smooth

 

 

BANGKOK, 28 November 2016 (NNT) – The Deputy Prime Minister for Security Affairs has voiced confidence the nation’s political transition will be smooth and affirmed the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) will hold to the Road Map for national development. 

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Gen Prawit Wongsuwan has said he does not know if an upcoming Cabinet meeting will have any special topics but gave his opinion that the nation’s political transition will take place smoothly with the cooperation of the public. He assured the NCPO will continue to follow the national Road Map if no extraneous circumstances arise. 

On upcoming ministry evaluations, he said no clear schedule has yet been put out but assured his office is always ready for review.

 

-- nnt 2016-11-28

[JAG]

So smooth in fact that you probably won't notice that anything has happened ...

[Thailand]

What election?

[thai3]

comedy gold as usual

[petermik]

Smooth for as long as the elected ones are approved by the existing "government"

[tbthailand]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

DPM confident nation's political transition will be smooth

 

transition: from military rule without elections to military rule with elections.

 

what could possibly go wrong?

 

[debate101]

What if there's another prominent death? Is that what all this hemming and hawing is about?

[nong38]

The road to democracy in the promised land is full of diversions, road blocks and  scenic routes, happiness is found along the road not at the end.

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

Not only snakes got forked tongues.

 

[maoro2013]

16 hours ago, webfact said:

if no extraneous circumstances arise. 

Yep.

[Eric Loh]

16 hours ago, Thailand said:

What election?

 

Erection not election that he is talking about. Nothing smooth at his age and gender.

[yellowboat]

15 hours ago, tbthailand said:

 

transition: from military rule without elections to military rule with elections.

 

what could possibly go wrong?

 

Tis sadly true.   It will look something like Hong Kong democracy with exception of the junta saying who can run for any office.  Military strong men and the ultra rich creating democracy will not server the average Thai

[seedy]

Derogatory post removed

[Charlie1]

So funny that Thaivisa is leaving out of their article the most important things he said: Probably no elections in 2017.

I can understand that Thaivisa is in love with the junta for some reasons, but they could at least tell the whole thing...

 

[chickenslegs]

29 minutes ago, Charlie1 said:

So funny that Thaivisa is leaving out of their article the most important things he said: Probably no elections in 2017.

I can understand that Thaivisa is in love with the junta for some reasons, but they could at least tell the whole thing...

 

 

Do you have a link to the "Probably no elections in 2017" article?

[elgordo38]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

He assured the NCPO will continue to follow the national Road Map if no extraneous circumstances arise. 

2nd time the phrase extraneous circumstances has been used. Does he perchance know something we do not??

[Charlie1]

5 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

 

Do you have a link to the "Probably no elections in 2017" article?

Have a look on Khaosod English

[bangon04]

and he has such an honest face..... you just have to believe him.

[dhream]

As of today.

These guys are toast.

Under new management.

Capiche?

[MaxLee]

Stone cold face, stone cold lies...


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[nong38]

When I first came here Abhisit was the PM, her looked and sounded the part but came to power by not the usual way, he did though say there would be an election and it happened, things for me were ok under him. Yingluck comes along won the election, nothing changed for me but after a while I think she may have wished she had stuck to selling telephones when the opposition started kicking off, would there have been a civil war between the different factions, looked a possibility so the Army did what they do in not so developed countries and stepped in as they have done many times in the past, Chan ocha seemed a good bloke and nothing has changed for me, we cannot influence what goes on here we do have a vote all we can do is comment on what we see, usually in comparison with the politics of our home country and maybe think it should apply here. Thailand has to be allowed to develop its own form of democracy it will not be like what we have been used to, probably.

What the new constitution and rules end up like is anybodies guess but it seems like it will not be like before, it seems to me and I might be wrong that the military seem to want a hand in what is going on, is that right or wrong? Bit like Burma? Would it stop future interference from a coup or would there be no need for a coup?  Will things change much for me either way, probably not, so what about the people of the country, the ordinary people? I suspect they have enough problems living from day to day and making enough money to carry on, all they want is peaceful life that can improve over time and so long as whoever is in charge can do that then its job done for them.

The military could help this along by not ordering a lot of new toys they are never going to use, does anyone see Thailand going to war with any of its neighbours? If not then they could give up a lot of what they dream about and fix the infrastructure, better roads, a decent railway system for a start, flood water handling systems, I am sure you know the things, the little things that can make better for the locals and that would benefit us as well.

I suspect an election is some way off, there seems to be no hurry along the road map and the junta seem to have adapted to and got used to real power, well lets hope they can use it properly for everyone.