the Military has in several rounds postponed the decision. But now is a date set. On 24 February the thai people to have their say, and the from and with in the week lifted the ban on political campaigns. It looks four years with the military in power to be on the road to go towards an end.
But even if it becomes a choice to believe that Thailand’s powerful military also in the future have a major influence over politics. In 2017 succeeded, namely, the military junta manufactured through a constitution that entrenches the military’s role. The constitution adopted after a referendum which got a lot of criticism. Political campaigns and foreign election observers were banned, and voter turnout was low.
gives the military the right to appoint who sits in parliament’s upper house. Thus, it may also influence over who becomes prime minister. The constitution also makes it difficult for a single party to get majority in the house of commons. It makes it difficult for the former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatras party, Pheu Thai, which is still believed to have the greatest popular support in Thailand, to take over the leadership of the country.
Both Yingluck Shinawatra, who was forced away from power in 2014, following a long period of time with large and sometimes violent protests, and her brother Thaksin, also he was a former prime minister who was deposed in a military coup, lives in exile. But to the two, which is popular among the rural poor, will somehow be involved in the electoral process is no wild guess. The party that Thaksin Shinawatra has been behind – they have changed the name several times, has won all the elections that have been held in Thailand for the past 20 years.
Image 1 of 2 Yingluck Shinawatra Photo: Sakchai Lalit/AP Slide 2 of 2 Thaksin Shinawatra Photo: Frank Franklin II/AP photo Slideshow
stand the better-off middle class in the big cities. It was the one that went to the storms against the Shinawatra and accused the government of corruption and abuse of power. The folk of the clashes ceased after the military coup. But at the same time was a range of freedoms. More than five people did not gather for political meetings and critical politicians, professors and journalists were imprisoned without trial.
If the current self-proclaimed prime minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, former general in the air force, set up in the choice is unclear. In the past he has said that he took the power of ”duty” for the country. In recent times, however, he has acted like a man out on the valturné and travelled around the country to build political contacts and offer people a variety of economic benefits.
