By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin was today (Dec.28) encouraged to disband the National Strategies Committee which could be otherwise virtually viewed as a living legacy of a former coup junta.
Move Forward MP Rangsiman Rome expressed his consent to the prime minister’s latest views of the 20-Year National Strategies as being predetermined to span too long a period of time whilst being too rigid and oblivious to change and volatility in modern world affairs and technologies.
Srettha has recently commented that the 20-Year National Strategies had been prepared by the old generations with intent to compel the young and future generations to strictly follow over the next couple of decades and that they should be substantially amended to better suit tomorrow’s domestic and global circumstances.
Rangsiman suggested that the prime minister dissolve what could otherwise be held as a living legacy of the former coup junta headed by army chief-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha once and for all.
That the prime minister has publicly aired his criticism of the 20-Year National Strategies, drafted by the Prayut-led junta and pro-military bureaucrats following the 2014 coup, and expressed his desire to have such far-reaching plans and schemes substantially amended would probably be welcomed as a parallel move alongside the sought-after amendment to the junta-designed constitution of 2017, Rangsiman commented.
Instrumental to the proposed dissolution of the National Strategies Committee, chaired by the prime minister, and amendments to the contentious charter are long-awaited massive moves toward truly democratic rule, according to the Move Forward lawmaker.
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Top and Front Page: Move Forward MP Rangsiman Rome, left, and Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, right. Both photos: Thai Rath
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