The last three coups, all of which happened in the past two decades, cited widespread corruption among politicians as their main rationale for action. Seeing the trend, it is possible that a number of middle-aged Thai taxpayers — a large portion of the population that tends to be relatively active economically, politically and socially — perceive democratic government in Thailand as corrupt and the coup as solution to that corruption. A June 2015 opinion poll reported that 75 per cent of respondents supported the military to stay and carry on with its so far .