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Coup? What Coup?
The Thai Junta Is Denying Everything
And it’s just as confused about vote-buying too
Läs själv - en relativt kort men träffande och rolig artikel om kuppen som ju inte kunde hända
Så här bl.a..
The regime has been trying its hand at serious policy decisions, too, scrapping a $24 billion high-speed rail scheme,
championed by former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, that would have been a boon to her ardent supporters
in the rural northeast even though it was vehemently derided by her opponents.
But the axing is not about saving money, it would seem, for on Friday the junta announced that it was increasing
the nation’s remaining $37 billion infrastructure improvement budget to $92 billion.
Alright, nobody’s going to cast a ballot for these guys. But still — vote-buying, much?
Supporters of the coup long objected to the Shinawatra government for populist policies
they considered tantamount to vote-buying (high-speed rail was one, a disastrous rice-pledging scheme was another).
Curiously, though, the military’s new ramped up infrastructure plans include a seaport,
the expansion of the capital’s two airports and dual-track railways along six routes.
And that’s just to start with.
Presumably the junta will have another term for this than “vote-buying,” just as it shrinks from the word “coup.”
But with apologies, gentlemen, the c-word really does suit you.
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- och fortfarande finns det inga konkreta planer på att införa demokrati -