The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday May 22nd, 2023
Insurmountable challenges ahead for a new Thai government by Murray Hunter
One week after the May 14 election, the members of the Prayut-Chan-O-Cha government are carrying on business, as if nothing happened. The young Move Forward Party (MFP) leader Pita Limjaroenrat is trying to assemble a coalition and support from the senate that will give him the 376 votes necessary to elect him prime minister.
In Thailand, the PM is not the person who commands the majority of seats in the lower house. The vote for prime minister is undertaken from a bicameral vote of both the lower house and 250 member senate. Currently Pita has support from 314 MPs designate in the 500 member lower house. That means Pita will have to win over 64 senators from the military appointed senate to acquire enough votes to become Thailand’s next prime minister. The only other alternative is for Pita to gain the support of AnutinCharnvirakul’sBhumjaithai Party, and retain Anutin as a deputy prime minister. This is something MFP supporters and Pheu Thai wouldn’t accept.
The probability of gaining the support of 64 senators would be an unprecedented shift in support away from the establishment and military towards the people. One might even include royalty. Any senator who voted for a prime ministerial candidate with the abolishment of Section 112 on the government platform, would face consequences.
Under such circumstances, the present government combining Bhumjaithai Party (70), PalangPracharath Party (40), United Thai Nation Party (25), Democrat Party (25), and the Charttaipattana Party (10), have 181 seats and with the support of the senate, would have 431 votes for their prime ministerial candidate. There is a possibility that Anutin, who has very close ties with the royal family, military, and the elite business families in Thailand, may rise as a potential compromise candidate.
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The Comedy of the Tragedy or Sputum to the sky #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“The sun deceived us
We were defeated by our grandfathers’ land
And the moon gave us whimper that we do not deserve”
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STEPS2 Exhibition – Opening
On Friday May 19th, the latest EU-MAN group exhibition, STEPS 2, opened in London, UK, to remind us that even in the darkest times of global pandemic creators constantly produce art!
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2nd opinion, quarantined! #11 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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