News Forum - Election Commission discussing prime minister term limit today

[Thaiger]

With what many believe to be the end of PM Prayut Chan-o-cha’s eight-year term limit just three days away, the Election Commission will discuss today the legal debate over if he can remain in the prime minister seat in any capacity beyond August 24. That date marks eight years since PM Prayut took the prime minister’s office, and the current constitution allows a maximum of eight years for any prime minister, but the current constitution was only adopted four years ago. It’s this discrepancy that forms the basis of the hotly debated legal question: Does PM Prayut’s constitutionally mandated eight-year […]

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[HolyCowCm]

Toss the power hungry regime bum out. No one likes him and his cronies anyway. But fat chance on this as they have the loophole of him becoming the Caretaker PM while they then just wait and rewrite the consitution once again to fit them. Reality is everyone knows they will not relinquish control

[Venusianhart]

Just be like China become president forever, then  threaten to invade Koh Samui if the full moon party doesn't close by ten pm.

Or maybe threaten to shoot down the Sri Lankan Presidents plane for not filling out a TM6

[DesperateOldHand]

1 hour ago, HolyCowCm said:

Toss the power hungry regime bum out. No one likes him and his cronies anyway. But fat chance on this as they have the loophole of him becoming the Caretaker PM while they then just wait and rewrite the consitution once again to fit them. Reality is everyone knows they will not relinquish control

Exactly. This is the way it's been for ages. 

A more fitting and predictable scenario might be that Lung Tu steps down in one capacity or another, and is replaced [by hook or crook] by similar within the frame work of The Club - election or not. 

They have the manipulating leverage. And always have. 

There is this fanciful manner running around, by way of naive souls, that outing Prayut or any such democratic elective process will change everything. 

Not.

[HolyCowCm]

49 minutes ago, DesperateOldHand said:

Exactly. This is the way it's been for ages. 

A more fitting and predictable scenario might be that Lung Tu steps down in one capacity or another, and is replaced [by hook or crook] by similar within the frame work of The Club - election or not. 

They have the manipulating leverage. And always have. 

There is this fanciful manner running around, by way of naive souls, that outing Prayut or any such democratic elective process will change everything. 

Not.

Correct. They still manipulate from behind the scenes. 

[Snoopy23]

Better the evil you know than the evil you don’t know. Prayut is aspiring to this position. God help Farangs if this happens.

[HolyCowCm]

7 minutes ago, Snoopy23 said:

Better the evil you know than the evil you don’t know. Prayut is aspiring to this position. God help Farangs if this happens.

Started with Thaskin for us. Anutin is no better as he aspires to be the next figure head controlled by the regime. P-Head is just one of the regime group that fists the control. Needs to be a complete overhaul cleaning the turds out and bring in a force like Move Forward allowing Thanathorn back in to give it a try.  

[MikeW]

6 hours ago, DesperateOldHand said:

Exactly. This is the way it's been for ages. 

A more fitting and predictable scenario might be that Lung Tu steps down in one capacity or another, and is replaced [by hook or crook] by similar within the frame work of The Club - election or not. 

They have the manipulating leverage. And always have. 

There is this fanciful manner running around, by way of naive souls, that outing Prayut or any such democratic elective process will change everything. 

Not.

Same as Burma if the military doesn't like an elected government they will just over throw it again. I think that has happened 9 times under the late king 

[DiJoDavO]

12 hours ago, Venusianhart said:

Just be like China become president forever, then  threaten to invade Koh Samui if the full moon party doesn't close by ten pm.

Why invade Koh Samui for that?