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Only in Thailand, a followup.

Ousting Samak over a cooking show was pretty funny, and having him eligible for reelection two days later was ridiculous. Incredibly, someone came to their senses and Samak ended up with a no-vote, leaving him no choice but to exit the political scene… I started to feel a bit impressed, relieved at this display of apparent good judgement.

Then the nominees were announced, all of which were members of the same party. My ridiculousness alarm started to buzz, then soon began blaring at today’s election results. The new Prime Minister? None other than the brother-in-law of Thaksin, that other ousted PM who is evading arrest as an asylum-seeker in Britain and who is the root cause of all the political turmoil in the first place. The problem that the PAD had with Samak was that he was a proxy for Thaksin – needless to say, electing the guy’s brother-in-law is not going to appease them!

Back to square one?

http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=130735



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