New Mandala

Thailand’s constitutional referendum is the junta’s first demonstration of sufficiency democracy in action.
Less than a year ago, anti-Thaksin and pro-coup advocates were very keen to discredit the validity of the electoral process. Electoral politics was condemned and electors were slandered as uninformed, parochial and self-interested pawns of party canvassers.
Now, in an act that would be [...]

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This post is part of New Mandala’s month-long feature on Thailand’s 2007 constitution referendum.
Full-steam campaigning does not seem to be on the cards in Chachoengsao. Chaturon Chaisaeng did not turn up as promised at a discussion of the draft constitution held on August 1 at the Rajaphat University. He cancelled his appearance at 5 pm the [...]

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