re: "Political drama peaks" (BP, Editorial, August 22, 2023)
Dear editor,
How fittingly sarcastic of the Bangkok Post to write that "It is hoped that senators will make a fair decision" regarding the vote on the shameful Pheu Thai's nominee for the post of prime minister. Or is the editor suffering severe amnesia?
Were the senate capable of making "a fair decision" on the appointment of Thailand's next prime minister, Pita Limjaroenrat would already be the prime minister of Thailand in a government led by Move Forward. Has it somehow escaped the Post's notice that this is not in fact the reality even in Thailand? If, fresh from betraying its voters, the Pheu Thai nominee wins the senate's approval, that endorsement can only prove that Pheu Thai's nominee is not in fact a fair choice for prime minister. It will then have to be wondered what unspeakable deals have been done with whom to have enabled such a travesty of democracy, such a rejection of justice, such a betrayal of Thai voters.
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 August 23, 2023, under the title "Between the lines" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2634321/between-the-lines
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