Premocracy 2.0 in the 2010s?
• 5 Apr 2016 at 14:42 936 viewed1 comments
• WRITER: JON FERNQUEST
• ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: THITINAN PONGSUDHIRAK
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General Prem & General Prayut at Army Day 2016 celebrations.
In the 1980s General Prem shared power with politicians, delegated economics to technocrats & was untainted by corruption, can it work again?
POLITICS & THE FUTURE
Premocracy 2.0 in the 2010s?
1/04/2016
Thitinan Pongsudhirak
From initial scrutiny of the draft charter, it is clear enough that the military wants toretain power over the long term in what can be likened to "Premocracy 2.0".
At issue is whether a military - civilian compromise and accommodation thatfunctioned well in the 1980s can work similarly more than three decades on.