In an outcome that surprised absolutely no one at all, K. Somchai was elected Thailand’s 26th Prime Minister today (and fourth in 23 months), succeeding K. Samak who was forced from office due to an adverse court ruling last week.
In one of his first reported comments after being elected by the Parlaiment, K. Somchai was as making the following statement:
“The government has no responsibility to protect anyone,” he said.
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It looks a lot like a “people power” revolution, the kind of brave and joyous pro-democracy uprising that has toppled dictators from the Philippines to Serbia.
For more than two weeks, thousands of people have camped on the grounds of the prime minister’s office, cheering and clapping as speakers with microphones have stood on the back of a truck and called for the downfall of the government.
But in fact the protest is more like a counterrevolution by the Thai establishment against the rising electoral power of the mostly rural poor.
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