It’s a while since New Mandala featured the thoughts of Sondhi Limthongkul. A few days ago he made a long statement that, among other things, attacked the Democrat Party, attacked the police, and rejected the accusations of terrorism levelled against the peace-loving People’s Alliance for Democracy. One of his more interesting comments came later in his statement where he set out what he would do if he was Prime Minister:

We cannot fix our country with the parliamentary system. The parliament cannot fix the problem of the country. If I was prime minister I would arrange for the Speaker of the Senate, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, the Chairman of the Supreme Court, the Chaiman of the (Supreme) Administrative Court to go report to the King about the situation and ask for his permission to resign and give (their) powers back to the King, dissolve the parliament and then resign (myself?). That would create a vacuum and there wouldn’t be a parliament or members of parliament. Power would be returned to the King so he could decide who should be called upon to manage these issues. For a period of three years this would free the country to reform the political system, reform the police, bring everything to good order. Yes, that’s what should be done.

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