New Statesman – Whos behind the Thai protests?

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Lifestyle L3AK online update reports New Statesman – Whos behind the Thai protests?



A welcome demonstration of the popular will, it may be thought. Do not the protesters gather under the banner of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD)? Yet as so often in Thai and south-east Asian politics, all is not what it seems. The PAD actually wants less democracy, or at least less of the one-man-one-vote variety.

Its leaders say that the rural poor who voted for Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in the army-led coup of 2006, and his successors (or proxies), are too ill-educated, their ballots too easily purchased by the highest bidder.

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