Du fick inte igång filmen från ABC förstår jag för då ser man att Thaksins väg till makten bygger på att köpa röster med kontanta medel. I dagligt tal kallat för just röstköp...
Att röstköp skulle ha säkrat Thaksinerna makten i två val borde vara lätt att verifiera.
Vem köpte vad och för hur mycket.
Röstar folk som de får betalt?
Kan du verifiera det?
Har du funderat på om den eviga klagan på röstköp kommer från de som egentligen inte vill ha val?
Har du funderat någon gång på om Demokraterna faktisk använt mera pengar på röstköp?
Har du överhuvudtaget funderat eller drar du röstköpskortet av reflex ?
Från Asian Correspondent:
So why the current panic about vote-buying?
The upcountry electorate is richer, better educated, and more experienced at elections than ever before.
In truth, the problem is not that upcountry voters don’t know how to use their vote,
and that the result is distorted by patronage and vote-buying.
The problem is that they have learnt to use the vote only too well.
Over four national polls, they have chosen very consistently and very rationally.
And, of course, that may be the real problem.
Back when many upcountry electors sold their votes, and as a result their weight in national politics was zero,
nobody cared so much about vote-buying.
But now the electors have got smart, they have to be stopped.
The bleating ( = gnällandet) about vote-buying and patronage politics is simply
an attempt to undermine electoral democracy because it seems to be working.
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Deputy Democrat party leader Alongkorn Ponlaboot in an interview that was broadcast
on May 31, 2013 on John Winyu’s show (รองหัวหน้าพรรคประชาธิปัตย์กล่าวในรายการ “เจาะข่าวตื้น ตอน 99″) stated:
“Recently, if we are speak directly, they [Puea Thai] use little money.
I am not saying we [the Democrats] use more money than them [Puea Thai]. [host interprets with statement "they are using less money"].
It has become inverted [host interprets and says "They don't need to use so much money?"]
I say if it is like that then don’t say we lost because of money”
(หลังๆมานี้ ถ้าพูดกันตามตรงนะ เขาใช้เงินน้อย ผมไม่บอกว่าเราใช้เงินมากกว่านะ มันกลับหัวกลับหาง ผมบอกถ้าอย่างนั้นอย่ามาพูดว่าแพ้เพราะเงิน”).
“For the last election, it may be because we actually used more than them.
Therefore, don’t talk about this issue anymore (” เลือกตั้งหลังสุดอาจจะเป็นเพราะเราใช้เงินมากกว่าเขาด้วยซ้ำไป เพราะฉะนั้นอย่ามาพูดประเด็นนี้อีกต่อไป”)
NOTE: Above quotes begins at 32:20 – although from 31 minute mark he is also speaking about this issue at the last election.
BP: It is a common theme of Alongkorn that he wants the Democrats to stop talking about the issue of vote buying
as that is not why they lost. He views the party needs to reform (with primaries + other reforms ) and policies to win votes….
Hence, then to use Young’s analogy, should we then discount the Democrat voters accordingly?
Läs själv, se ev. intervjun med deputy Democrat party leader Alongkorn Ponlaboot och begrunda.
mvh
