Voters have spoken – in Thaksin’s favour
I have been reading all the articles your newspaper has been printing since the elections have been completed. On one hand you are preaching reconciliation, on the other your editorial team is doing its very best to convince us why Khun Samak will not be good prime ministerial material.
Please practise what you preach. Your editorial team and all like-minded Bangkokians need to come to terms with the fact that more than half the electorate wants Thaksin back – the man wasn’t even running this time; just his ghost/presence was enough to give the PPP the commanding lead they have received. What do you think the results would have looked like had the man himself been running?
To be fair, the PPP must be given the mandate to form a government. If it fails to do so, then it will be politically correct, morally justified and ethically sound for the Democrats to have a go at forging a coalition.
Lastly, a direct message to the People’s Alliance for Democracy from me: I, the electorate, have spoken. You may not like what you hear, but respect it you must! True reconciliation will only come once we, the people in Bangkok, get it through our heads that the people in the North and Northeast are also Thai, and that their vote counts as much as those from Bangkok.
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