Parties and groups must sign vow to behave: PM Prayut

[webfact]

Parties and groups must sign vow to behave: PM
By Wasamon Audjarint,
Kasamakorn Chanwanpen,
Jitraporn Senawong
The Nation

 

Prayut

 

BANGKOK: -- POLITICAL parties and groups will be asked to sign a pact with a vow not to obstruct future elections or reject elected governments as part of the push for reconciliation by the government, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha suggested yesterday.

 

The new panel to drive reconciliation is mostly made up of security officers. It has drawn praise from some political leaders, but some peace advocates have voiced concern that the composition is dampening a process that could otherwise be friendly.

 

Prayut, at his weekly press briefing, revealed more details about the latest reconciliation move, ruling out an amnesty, which many had expected. 

 

He said people would be invited to discuss the way forward without an amnesty at this point.

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30304335

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-01-18

[taichiplanet]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

to sign a pact with a vow not to obstruct future elections

and if you break this vow? my guess is nothing much will happen.

 

it is good that at least he took amnesty of the table.

[maoro2013]

What about yourself? 

[klauskunkel]

Great. Group vow coming soon.

sincerely vowed, 

[01322521959]

How can this be put into force? Does this then mean that the right to protest is made illegal? To implement this will prove impossible. Is it going to be debated? There needs to be discussion. Christ in the UK the game of ping pong between the upper and lower houses is legend. None of that here. God has spoken. He who is almighty must be followed.
Pathetic.

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[Thailand]

Amnesty only went one way.

[madmitch]

They really don't understand democracy and party politics, do they?

3 hours ago, webfact said:

a vow not to obstruct future elections or reject elected governments

And do the military sign this as well?

[jonclark]

So the man that overthrew an elected government from the barrel of a gun...is now expecting others to not rejected elected governments?? 

 

I'm fairly sure a military coup (peaceful or otherwise) is the most forceful rejection any elected government can receive. Staggering hypocrisy and rather shortsighted, given that the great unanswered question though is will the military sign up to this, thereby preventing themselves for staging coups in the future. 

[waldroj]

The inconvenient truth that Thai people have to accept is that the junta and its cronies are determined to hold political control of the country well into the foreseeable future.

 

They have already set about changing the laws of the land to ensure this. And with statements like "...Parties and groups must sign vow to behave...", they may also force a rethink of some age-old idioms to reflect their authority over how and when elections may eventually be held in this country.

 

For example:

 

[tbthailand]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

will be asked to sign a pact with a vow not to obstruct future elections or reject elected governments as part of the push for reconciliation by the government, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha suggested yesterday.

this moron is such a joker... 

 

oh, sorry, I forgot, ... he's planning to also be our next "PM", so of course no one should reject the "elected" government....

Edited January 18, 2017 by tbthailand

[arrowsdawdle]

The little general is right in character, asking parties to sign vow not to obstruct elections or reject elected governments like he did when he hijacked the country and stopped elections. Sakdina is alive and well in LOS with the institutionalized double-standard. The parties ought to agree to sign the vow with specified enforcement if the little general will sign it as well and make it retroactive to April 2014.

[DM07]

This is just too stupid to seriously comment on it!

[elgordo38]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

BANGKOK: -- POLITICAL parties and groups will be asked to sign a pact with a vow not to obstruct future elections or reject elected governments as part of the push for reconciliation by the government, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha suggested yesterday.

Yes have finally figured out what reconciliation means in their eyes. This is going to turn into a real Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy show in real life. 

[elgordo38]

15 minutes ago, DM07 said:

This is just too stupid to seriously comment on it!

You gave it your best shot. 

[elgordo38]

57 minutes ago, arrowsdawdle said:

The little general is right in character, asking parties to sign vow not to obstruct elections or reject elected governments like he did when he hijacked the country and stopped elections. Sakdina is alive and well in LOS with the institutionalized double-standard. The parties ought to agree to sign the vow with specified enforcement if the little general will sign it as well and make it retroactive to April 2014.

He who rules the roost makes the rules. 

[Reigntax]

3 hours ago, madmitch said:

They really don't understand democracy and party politics, do they?

And do the military sign this as well?

 

Of course not, the military are above any law, some might say,  lawless to themself.

[performance]

Joker. Is this April fools day ?

Sign lol. You are a funny little man. You have offered no democracy and have failed the people on basic reforms.. Advice find a warm island retire.

[WhizBang]

Sign a vow to behave?   What is this kindergarden?   Oh right, Thailand.
 

[Srikcir]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

Parties and groups must sign vow to behave

 

10 hours ago, webfact said:

POLITICAL parties and groups will be asked to sign

Maybe in the military being asked  is the same as being ordered  but it is a world of difference for civillians. The fact that Prayut doesn't distinguish between the two terms befits his lack of appreciation of what reconciliation means. Prayut treats the Thai People as insurgents who must learn their place in Prayut's society.

[candide]

Let's put it in a broader perspective. As mentioned before, it seems to be surprising as the army has always used protests organised by the PAD and the PDRC against an elected government and against election (with direct or indirect support from the Dems), in order to make coups.

It cannot be expected that they target their own side of the political arena.

So this means two things (together with a law restricting protests):

- They don't need the PAD, the PDRC and the Dems to make protests any more, as there is a mechanism of quasi-coups in the new constitution, that can be activated by various kinds of appointed people.

- They expect the "red" side to protest, which is likely to occur if the government is not representative of the choices expressed by direct voters (citizen). I assume that by "elected government" the junta thinks to the case of an unrepresentative government indirectly elected with the help of the unelected senate.

[mtls2005]

 

[TheFishman1]

He is joking right. TIT

[maxcorrigan]

9 hours ago, jonclark said:

So the man that overthrew an elected government from the barrel of a gun...is now expecting others to not rejected elected governments?? 

 

I'm fairly sure a military coup (peaceful or otherwise) is the most forceful rejection any elected government can receive. Staggering hypocrisy and rather shortsighted, given that the great unanswered question though is will the military sign up to this, thereby preventing themselves for staging coups in the future. 

I honestly think he has forgotten all about how he became head "Honcho" and probably thinks everyone else has too, in his mind he has accomplished so many good things, these will have banished any thing bad from his mind and memory!