By Frank G. Anderson
Column: Thai Traditions
UPI Asia
Nakhonratchasima, Thailand — As the holiday season approaches and Christmas carols, holiday decorations and retail sales all steadily increase, pressure against Thailand's ruling Democrat Party seems to be maintaining a steady course.
Accused of bribery, malfeasance, incompetence, foot-dragging, lack of accomplishments, sleeping (usually figuratively) with the country's elite, and otherwise being a bad political party to lead the kingdom – an assessment with which Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen concurs – the Democrats and their party leader, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, are weathering one storm after another, but apparently without any real danger that Parliament will be dissolved.
The big issue was and remains that of the ruins of the Phreah Vihear temple, which used to lie in Thailand but is now in Cambodia. There is also the supposedly undeserved premiership gained by an illegal seizure of government back in 2006 when the Thai military and other elites decided they could not wait to see what happened when forces loyal to and opposed to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra were heading for a showdown.
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