Chuan accuses government of lacking a policy on southern insurgency

The government does not have a policy on how to deal with unrest in the Deep South and it has confused Southern people with the claim that the current rubber price increase is the result of government’s success in the crackdown on smuggled rubber, claimed former prime minister Chuan Leekpai during the general debate in parliament on Thursday.

The Democrat MP claimed that the rubber price has not increased this year only in Thailand. It has also risen in Malaysia and Indonesia and the increases are the result of the supply and demand mechanism, not any successful crackdown on smuggled rubber, as claimed by both Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and Agriculture Minister Thammanat Prompao.

He said that the government will be criticised if, in the future, the price of rubber starts to fall, adding that he would like to know whether the government has a Plan B to cope with a price drop…