The by-election is on national level to refill parliament, the gubernatorial ballot here in Bangkok is just held coincidentally on the same day.

The Democrats’ candidate though lough looks like a sure ticket here in Bangkok – so somehow the two ballots are kinda connected.

BangkokDan aka Senior Banger aka Justanotherbanger

I also think the PPP should have called a snap election but

a) the PAD, senior military and rich families may not have allowed it to go ahead, by using the courts or by brute force

b) it would not have solved the problem … the PAD, senior military and rich families in collusion with the courts are the real problem

And forcing them to accept democratic action by all the people of Thailand requires continual ongoing pressure … like what is happening now.

It’s really sad for Thailand that this is all happening while the global financial system is decaying, it means more people will be hurt.

I highly question whether this large sum of money will be spent transparently.

Someone must have held a knife to someone’s throat.

The Frankenstein Coalition was unlikely. But it happened. A perfect black swan.

Anyway. Now we have Abhisit … and we can hear already the first notes of the … disenchantment music.

Wasn’t that long, huh?

I would like to add that so far their so-called “policies” are totally opaque and confused …

Every day, they come up with a new scheme, new figures for the boost/bailout package (100 billion? 300? Who cares?), and new ideas like sent like weather balloons (“cut taxes,” yes on Monday, maybe on Tuesday, perhaps on Wednesday, we will see on Thursday … start again the process the following week).

The pilot has obviously jumped from the airplane cockpit.

In other words, they are clueless.

And we are going to enjoy a nice free fall.

Got a parachute?

On this point I have to sympathize with former finance minister Suchart who said that the new administration did not have the money and did not know to get it.

You don’t just find that amount of money.

What still puzzles me the most though is why the previous government didn’t call for snap elections.

BangkokDan

The PPP government decided on 100bln … so why 300bln now?

Part of the increase is needed due to delays and damage caused by the senior military and the rich families and their agents the PAD … maybe 200bln now …

And the extra 100bln is the payoff to the PAD private and military supporters for getting their slave government into power.

The PAD said they were working to rid the government of corruption … Hahahahah, fooled a lot of people that went along and donated … hahahaha.

Either you want to be governed by a weak government that owes its existence to the senior military and rich families – or you want all the people of Thailand to be able to choose their government.

To survive, the military/rich families government must do what the elite want, they can promise everything but are not free to implement anything that the elite do not want.

The democratically elected government must do what the people of Thailand want otherwise the people will punish them at the next election.

Which government do you want?