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EDITORIAL: Red shirts,yellow shirts
PRIME Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand is caught between a rock and a hard place. Since being confirmed as PM by a special vote of the country's Parliament a couple of weeks ago, the leader of the previously opposition Democratic Party is being racked on his country's intractable political divisions. British-born and educated, the international media have delighted in Abhisit, giving ample play to his moderate politics, centrist views and anti-authoritarian instincts. The trouble is, the helm now held by Abhisit is no longer connected to the ship's steering mechanism, which remains usurped by the crowds of protesters assailing Thailand's government from pillar to post.
Although his ascent succeeded in clearing away the yellow-shirted rabble that had strangled Bangkok's airports and stranded 300,000 travellers for a week in protest of successive administrations linked to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Abhisit now faces the entirely predictable backlash from Thaksin's grassroots, rural-based supporters (conveniently donning red shirts to distinguish themselves from their urban middle-class nemeses). If anything, there's cause for some relief in Abhisit being there to serve as a focus for their ire -- had the red and yellow shirts clashed in the numbers they command, the potential toll does not bear thinking about. But any illusions Abhisit may have of being more than a caretaker prime minister must be wearing thin. His "grand plan for reconciliation" and RM30 billion economic stimulus package might have cut the ice had his premiership been entirely legitimate, but in these circumstances he had to comply with the constitutional requirement of a policy statement in a venue outside Parliament, which was barricaded by 20,000 Thaksin supporters.
Abhisit should not imagine he will have a chance to do anything but shepherd his country's beleaguered legislature to new elections -- as far as the protesters on either side of the divide are concerned, that's his only role. It's a shame, in the sense that Abhisit, Thailand's third premier in four months, would seem a good candidate for that position. But his self-effacing clarity and compassionate appraisal of his country's situation are virtually irrelevant in the present climate. With a million lost jobs expected this year and risk-averse investors in full flight, nothing but new elections might re-establish parliamentary governance in Thailand. Abhisit is expected to enable that, and leave all else to be determined thereafter. It may be a raw deal, but it's the only deal available.
PRIME Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand is caught between a rock and a hard place. Since being confirmed as PM by a special vote of the country's Parliament a couple of weeks ago, the leader of the previously opposition Democratic Party is being racked on his country's intractable political divisions. British-born and educated, the international media have delighted in Abhisit, giving ample play to his moderate politics, centrist views and anti-authoritarian instincts. The trouble is, the helm now held by Abhisit is no longer connected to the ship's steering mechanism, which remains usurped by the crowds of protesters assailing Thailand's government from pillar to post.
Although his ascent succeeded in clearing away the yellow-shirted rabble that had strangled Bangkok's airports and stranded 300,000 travellers for a week in protest of successive administrations linked to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Abhisit now faces the entirely predictable backlash from Thaksin's grassroots, rural-based supporters (conveniently donning red shirts to distinguish themselves from their urban middle-class nemeses). If anything, there's cause for some relief in Abhisit being there to serve as a focus for their ire -- had the red and yellow shirts clashed in the numbers they command, the potential toll does not bear thinking about. But any illusions Abhisit may have of being more than a caretaker prime minister must be wearing thin. His "grand plan for reconciliation" and RM30 billion economic stimulus package might have cut the ice had his premiership been entirely legitimate, but in these circumstances he had to comply with the constitutional requirement of a policy statement in a venue outside Parliament, which was barricaded by 20,000 Thaksin supporters.
Abhisit should not imagine he will have a chance to do anything but shepherd his country's beleaguered legislature to new elections -- as far as the protesters on either side of the divide are concerned, that's his only role. It's a shame, in the sense that Abhisit, Thailand's third premier in four months, would seem a good candidate for that position. But his self-effacing clarity and compassionate appraisal of his country's situation are virtually irrelevant in the present climate. With a million lost jobs expected this year and risk-averse investors in full flight, nothing but new elections might re-establish parliamentary governance in Thailand. Abhisit is expected to enable that, and leave all else to be determined thereafter. It may be a raw deal, but it's the only deal available.
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