re: "Nation warned of lost opportunities" (BP, Business, July 26, 2023)
Dear editor,
Stanley Kang, former chairman of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Thailand (JFCCT), is not quite right when he repeats the wishful deceit some would put about that "there was no clear winner in the May 14 election." The perfectly clear winner was the will of the Thai people that their nation be reformed in accord with justice and democracy. That is what the eight-party coalition of pro-democracy parties represented when they agreed on a binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) and unanimously nominated Move Forward's Pita Limjaroenrat to serve in the position of prime minister. Nothing there has since changed in the past two months of forced stagnation.
If the JFCCT and others are looking to place well-deserved blame, it is not with the people's properly elected representatives in parliament. They have made every effort to implement the clear will of the Thai people. Nor is it difficult to see where the blame lies.
Following his road map that began with Royal Thai Army General Prayut Chan-cha overthrowing Thailand's popular "democratic regime of government with the King as Head of State" (Sect. 2, Constitution of the Kingdom or Thailand, 2007, 2014, & 2017), then Prime Minister Prayut (Gen.) and his are to blame for the last nine years of stunted economic performance that follows from the concomitant stunting of political, social and moral growth.
The senate and colluding bodies that PM (now caretaker, Gen.) Prayut and his road builders set up, along with the law that they had made up, are alone to blame for the ongoing desolation since May 14.
As Section 3 of the cited set of constitutions current and past declares, "Sovereign power belongs to the Thai people." The people's duly elected representatives in parliament have done their best to realize it; the failure to have already implemented the people's will clearly lies elsewhere.
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 28, 2023, under the title "Where blame lies" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2619335/where-blame-lies
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