Written By: Manatsanan Panthong
According to Aristotle’s political philosophy, governments can be organized under political control in six different ways, depending on who rules and for whom they rule. And, as we all know, “government” refers to a system or group of individuals in charge of an organized community, usually a state. Some country in the world is governed by Democracy. Some are Monarchy and some were run by Junta like Thailand. As I am Thai people and also be a future of the country, I have been suffered with the Junta government for almost 7 years.
Starting at the middle of 2014, General Prayut Chan-O-Cha coup the government and has become a prime minister of Thailand. Since that, he often appears on national television and exchanges problems and solutions. But the result of doing this is the worst thing I have ever heard before and all the thing that he did are never fixed any problem at all. And over the last few years there have been massive debates and argument about whether or not Prayuth should be quit from the prime minister position and let other talented people to do his job instead. Thailand is now a typical military dictatorship, with the government ruling by decree, suppressing opposition, controlling the media, and banning public meetings.
In my opinion, due to the failure of the administration of state affairs through corruption and the power of the government under the leadership of General Prayut Chan-o-cha for the past 7 years, I totally agree with some of Thai people and the protesters who have announced to expulse General Prayut that he should be resigned from the position of Prime Minister and should take responsibility for a nation that is in crisis and plunges into the abyss of disaster under the economic crisis and debt, including the suffering of the people from the current epidemic situation because he lacks the ability to solve problems. And Prayut only solve the solution by blaming the protestors for further damaging the country’s economy. He also stated that he will increase his use of all laws and articles against unlawful protestors, including the resumption of lese majeste alleged crimes.
It is not making any senses to me if the public could not participate in decisions that affect their daily lives, could not speak for their right, and had life- altering decisions made for them. I’d like to feel like I have to say in what happens in my community and country. Because of these feelings, I believe that all next elections should be direct reflections of the people’s will, rather than coups and corruption like Thailand’s Junta government.
There will be a little hope to save our future from the Junta government and I think Thailand is unlikely to regain the semblance of peace and stability it has long been searching for in a short time. However, I believe that someday Thai government will be somewhere that people can choose who to rule the country and has a chance to take a political decision for the best of their life.
The author is a student at the Burapha University, Thailand.
