The regime loses but wins

Political parties are actively preparing for elections. Amidst the loud sound of the political drums General Prayut Chan-o-cha expressed his determination to stay in power for another five years. May oppose public opinion, a majority of 40.73% wants Gen. Prayut to announce that he will be in office no later than August 2022.

It is the result of a Nida Poll survey. National Institute of Development Administration who want to hear people’s opinions about the unclear of the constitution Regarding the ban on the Prime Minister for more than 8 years, the DeputyPrime MinisterThe Legal Department indicates that there are 3 formulas, Formula 1, starting from 2014, Formula 2 starting from 2017, Formula 3, 2019.

result ofNida Pole It is clear that the majority of the people, starting from 2014, will complete their eighth year in August 2022, and 38.37% of the sample asked the Prime Minister to submit to the Constitutional Court, another 15.03% to stay still, do nothing, but 40.35%. to dissolve the parliament asap, another 30.05% for the election law to be completed before the dissolution

Only 22.12% opposed the dissolution of parliament. In order to have a new election from the opinion of the people above, it may be divided into 2 groups, one group being the majority, such as those who want to General Prayut made it clear will stay no later than August next year or a group that wants the dissolution of the House of Representatives This group does not support the Prime Minister.

The second group is cheerleaders. Gen. Prayut is the group that said to stay still. Don’t have to do anything about the prime minister’s 8-year affair and oppose the dissolution of parliament for a long time. But both groups were in the minority compared to the previous survey. found that the popularity of General Prayut collapses to 17.54

decreased from the survey results in the first 3 months of the year With a popular vote of 30% and dropping further in the second and third survey, Gen. Prayut still hopes to go on for another 5 years and is likely to be a prime minister candidate. of the Phalang Pracharat Party, but Gen. Prawit Wongsuwan, the party’s leader, believes that Next time you will get 150 to 200 MPs.

Obviously, they did not expect that the Democratic Party would win the election, with more MPs than a majority of 251 votes or more, but would be able to become prime minister. Because in Thai politics today, it can be called “the regime loses but wins.” Even in the last election, the NCPO lost, but can choose the prime minister and form a government with the power of 250 senators appointed by the NCPO.