re: "A time for unity" (BP, Editorial, July 6, 2023)
Dear editor,
The Thai Constitution, both the current and many previous, states in Section 3 that "Sovereign power belongs to the Thai people." The people have shown through their properly elected representatives in the pro-democracy coalition that they want Move Forward's Pita Limjaroenrat to be the next prime minister of their nation.
The trivial number of shares in the non-functioning iTV media company that Pita has previously held on behalf of his late father's estate being a non-issue, the senate has not a single good reason to deny the sovereign will of the Thai people in this matter. It should, as a matter of democratic principle that demonstrates good manners, unanimously support the majority coalition's nominee for prime minister. Should the senate be so reckless as to hide behind alternative but equally lame excuses to deliberately thwart the Thai people's sovereignty in this matter, they will thereby put whatever excuses they so use in direct conflict with the majority of the Thai nation. It is hard to see how such a rejection of the nation's will could be construed as being in any way unifying, helpful, respectful, or remotely wise.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on July 8, 2023, under the title "Rethink, Senate" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2607978/jumbo-torture
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