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Diplomat bemoans TRTs populist regime Published on December 24, 2005 The five-year reign of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatras administration has been all about We and Others politicking, said Surapong Jayanama, one of Thailands top career diplomats who retired last September. In a special interview with The Nation, Surapong, who was ambassador to Vietnam, Portugal, Greece, Germany, and South Africa, said, A populist regime allows political space for only two: We and all the Others. In this case, We means the government led by the Thai Rak Thai Party and its bedrock supporters predominantly its voters [who elected the party into office twice]. Others represent antagonists, NGOs, international organisations, intellectuals, critics, members of the Opposition. Surapong said he thought the TRT platform, which attracted an unprecedented 19 million voters in the general election last February, had key elements that were similar to those once propounded by failed populist regimes in Latin America. Brazil, Argentina, Peru and several other countries in the re-gion had populist regimes from the 1970s onwards, he said. All these regimes later became bankrupt. Surapong went on to point out the differences between populism as once practised in South America and that practised by the Shinawatra regime. All Latin American populist regimes were staunchly anti-capitalists, anti-landlords, and anti-multinational corporations, Surapong said. They allied themselves with the poor and the underprivileged. The current Thai populist regime in turn is evidently linked with global capitalism and multinational firms. Dictionary:
Foreign governments and multinationals are being invited in, in large numbers as we can see from the recent Thailand Grand Sale event, the veteran diplomat added. He was referring to PM Thaksins invitation on December 14 for more than 40 foreign governments and private sector representatives to invest in the Thai governments so-called development partnership programme. Yet for all the governments wooing of foreign investors, it has painted itself as a champion of Thailands poor, Surapong said. Poverty eradication, for instance, has long been a prominent feature of government policies, he said. It has resulted in members of the grassroots identifying themselves closely with We, he said. People from low-income families have also been being cajoled by the government over the past five years by way of special political treatment as evidenced by many government policies and measures, Surapong added. On the other side are the Others, whose criticisms are seen as antagonistic to the interests of the poor and as creating obstacles to the governments efforts to alleviate their situation. As a result, the Thaksin administration portrays itself as the only legitimate advocate of poor peoples welfare, he said. Second, the Others can also become handy political scapegoats, should they oppose a particular government policy or else when an important policy fails to bear desirable fruit, he said. [Such portraying of the political landscape] is a form of populist opportunism. But its not sustainable, Surapong added. Dictionary:
Recently, Thaksin shot down the political theory that the rural people vote the government in, while the Bangkok people unseat it. Dr Anek Laothamathat, the political scientist and former leader of the Mahachon Party, introduced this theory as the prevailing pattern of Thai politics before the political reform of 1997. But Thaksin said the theory does not work with him and the Thai Rak Thai, which, for all the talks about the governments losing its popularity, have still garnered strong support from the Bangkok and other urban constituencies. Surapong added that in line with his partys self-avowed claim to be the only legitimate champion of the poor, PM Thaksin has long made a point of describing himself as a rags-to-riches provincial who needed to work hard even as a child. Thaksin places heavy emphasis on such aspects of his life in his autobiography, Ta Du Dao Tao Tid Din. His story is meant to illustrate that ordinary people can also become tycoons like him, Supapong said. This kind of rags-to-riches story tale was very well received by common people some five years ago when Thaksin was first running for office. Thaksins inherent penchant for populism manifests itself in other ways as well, Surapong argued. The premier has demonstrated he is not really on the same wavelength as intellectuals and academics, he said. He doesnt seem to favour the parliamentary system, either, in the sense that he prefers to communicate directly with his constituents during his weekly national radio broadcast rather than via Parliament, he added. Surapong suggested that Thailand consider a fresh round of political reform by amending the 1997 Constitution to the extent that loopholes be plugged in so as to prevent future abuses of constitutional power by the ruling party. Nophakhun Limsamarnphun The Nation Dictionary:
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