Thai Junta nixes election result?

[Puppycow]

Man, what are they doing there?

Pita Limjaroenrat: Thai reformist leader who won election will not be PM

Mr Pita, a Harvard graduate and former tech executive, won on the promise of major reforms, including a pledge to amend lese-majeste, Thailand's strict royal defamation laws, pitting him against the unelected senate and other conservatives who say he poses a threat to the monarchy.

Mr Pita needed the votes of more than half of the 749 members in parliament's two chambers to become prime minister.

Last week, he secured only 324 votes, 51 short of the required 375. He had a clear majority from elected MPs in the lower house, but not from the upper house.

He always faced an uphill battle, as there was little evidence that the 249 upper house senators would support him. They were all installed by the military leaders of a 2006 coup as a brake on any democratic outcome that the military and royalists were uncomfortable with.

So unelected "senators" installed by the military junta have overridden the result of a democratic election. Sounds like a revolution is what's needed there.

 

[The Don]

Man, what are they doing there?

Pita Limjaroenrat: Thai reformist leader who won election will not be PM



So unelected "senators" installed by the military junta have overridden the result of a democratic election. Sounds like a revolution is what's needed there.

Standard practice from my very limited understanding of Thai politics for the last 50+ years.

 

[Norman Alexander]

And a model of how the US GQP think their government should work.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

Yea that's just Thailand being Thailand.