What if General Prayut Resigns?
Termsak Chalermpalanupap
Prime Minister General Prayut’s resignation would complicate, not moderate, Thailand’s current political turmoil.
Termsak Chalermpalanupap
Prime Minister General Prayut’s resignation would complicate, not moderate, Thailand’s current political turmoil.
Punchada Sirivunnabood
Similar goals link the current protests in Thailand with earlier ones. Their different tactics make them harder for authorities to quell.
Termsak Chalermpalanupap
The recent student protests constitute something more than a call for the resignation of the prime minister. The ultimate goal is the end of the absolute power of the monarchy, as envisioned by revolutionaries of the class of 1932.
Michael J. Montesano
Recent mass students protests in Bangkok and other parts of Thailand have forced the hand of the government. If the Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha does resign, it could signal a victory for the protesters – or a determination on the part of hard-line elements in the military and the palace.
Khorapin Phuaphansawat
The current protest movement in Thailand is breaking new political ground while acknowledging their predecessors.
Kevin S.Y. Tan
Demographic factors are driving Thailand’s current political protests. They will be hard to quell without major political reforms.
Termsak Chalermpalanupap
The sudden departure of Thailand’s newly-appointed finance minister is a sign that premiership of Prayut Chan-ocha is failing.
Ian Storey
News that Thailand has “cancelled” its Kra canal project and replaced it with a land bridge has exercised Indian observers. But you cannot scrap a plan that has not been approved and Indian media reports say more about tensions with China along their land border than a centuries’ old Thai canal plan.
Termsak Chalermpalanupap
The Phuea Thai Party is leading a bid to draft a new Constitution, in the wake of student protests calling on the government to stop harassment of critics and dissolve the Senate. Thai prime minister Prayut Chan-ocha can seize the initiative and call for a referendum. Given mounting calls for a “revolution,” not merely reforms, General Prayut does not have the luxury of time.
Michael J. Montesano
That calls for replacement of Thailand’s military-imposed constitution have touched on the political role of the monarchy is no surprise. Growing signs of support for constitutional change in provincial Thailand may be a more telling development.