What was distracting Thailand’s army commander turned coup-leader turned prime minister from delivering comments to reporters yesterday?
What so bothered him that he interrupted his own news conference to admonish a reporter for how she sat? Prayuth Chan-o-cha’s discomfort with a female reporter’s legs, which he suddenly asked her to uncross, is again raising questions about his leadership and maturity just weeks after he made headlines for spraying reporters with a bottle of disinfectant.
“Can you not put your leg down?! You’re crossing your legs like that before me. Can you? Your leg, your foot. Eh?” Prayuth said into the microphone just as he began to discuss the day’s cabinet meeting.
The reporter was only identified as a Thai employee of a foreign news agency.
In traditional Thai culture, leg-crossing is yet another part of the power…
