Primary System Proposed For Thailand's Next Election

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Prayuth Chan-ocha, who served as army chief at the time, casts his ballots in the Feb. 2, 2014, election in Bangkok.

 

BANGKOK — Next time Thailand prepares to elect new leaders, it may do so through a system never used in its 85 years of democracy: primary elections.

 

Central party officials voiced skepticism Monday about a system intended to give the public more say in politics after a majority of the junta’s rubber stamp parliament approved introducing such a voting system into law when they last met.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2017/06/20/primary-system-proposed-thailands-next-election/

 

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Why not just try it and if the outcome is not what you like just do another coup and try again with another system?

 

Its not like a coup is bad for the country, bring it back a few decades in time, is costly, scares away investors, etc.