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Home » News from the Netherlands and Belgium » Travel advice Thailand adjusted due to upcoming elections
Travel advice Thailand adjusted due to upcoming elections
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The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday travel advice adjusted for Thailand with a warning. The text reads:
“In the run-up to the March 24, 2019 general election, political rallies and demonstrations may take place. These can be violent. Avoid political gatherings and demonstrations.”
You can read the complete travel advice for Thailand here: www.nederlandwereldwijd.nl/reizen/reisadvies/thailand
I hope to witness political meetings, demonstrations, etc. during my next holiday. But I am gone when an army truck of soldiers arrives.
Well, have a nice holiday.
Now if I am interested in political meetings, I will go to the Netherlands. The political meetings before the coup were anything but friendly. Only gave mess and dead and wounded.
But time will tell. But there are more countries to go on holiday for this. Congo, Mali, Venezuela to name a few. Have a nice holiday day.
Rob V,I believe that something will change in a positive sense in a country that is mainly ruled by a small elite minority and its military is in the sense of all of us.
Only when I go on holiday, and I am certainly no exception with that, I prefer to go for the beautiful beaches, the culture, the good food, etc., and I would prefer not to witness political demonstrations at all, which bear in mind to end bloody.
If we give our vision on this site about a policy that in our eyes is not good, this is still different from someone who likes to witness such demonstrations, which do not directly concern him in any way.
We holidaymakers, foreigners who like to give our vision externally, have nothing to do with such demonstrations, because they clearly concern the Thai people in the first instance.
I happen to be on vacation around the time of elections, I feel involved with the country and follow what is going on. In line with this, it is interesting to be a spectator of the election period. Since the military is in power, I think there is little chance that we will again see violent/aggressive boycotts as was the case in the last elections (one howler from the PDRC). I therefore see no reason to avoid election-related gatherings or events.
I don't come to Thailand for the strabd, haven't been there for years. I come for my family, friends, nature and culture. And to read relaxed books about the country. Observing what is going on around the elections is a nice extra bonus opportunity. That is of course something different than getting started with banners or the like yourself. I'm sure my vacation will go well, I'll make it cozy in my own way.
Everyone has their own holiday, quite a few readers will be absolutely concerned about what the country/government is doing and in which direction it is going. Some even see 'strong leadership' in the junta dictatorship 'that brings peace' (through intimidation!). In my opinion, it is scandalous to worry more about the price of your beer or other facilities than about whether the population can live a somewhat normal life under a government that fairly weighs the interests of all its inhabitants against each other (freedom, democracy, human rights). , justice).
I also come to Thailand for nature, culture, and together with my Thai wife I like to visit her family and our mutual friends.
Have a great interest in the country, and also have the well-being of my Thai wife and the Thai people as a first priority.
With regard to Thai politics, I will at most express my opinion internally with the family if asked.
I like to follow any political demonstrations, which I hope will be successful and not bloody, in the news media, and I certainly don't feel called upon to comment on them unsolicited.
There are certainly Farangs who think they can reveal their political views on the spot, or even imagine that with their years of coming or presence they are already half-Thai, only this imagination and feeling can suddenly turn painfully into reality in heated debates.
The reality is that in their eyes you always remain an outsider, who basically has nothing to say about their politics, IN SHORT A FARANG who likes to be greeted in this country, as long as he rightly keeps his mouth shut in internal affairs.
My hope for the population is that General Prayuth is wise enough not to allow these elections to take place by decree and to dissolve all political parties immediately. Due to political chaos, resentment arises between different population groups, which can only come to a bloody eruption in the form of riots, army intervention and other unforeseeable suffering. I'm afraid that so-called "democracy" is not for the Thai. One simply cannot deal with it. Now that the army rules, it is nice and quiet in the country and Thailand is doing well economically. As far as I am concerned: cancel those elections and please continue with the 20-year plan, at least until the 20 years have expired. Politics is an illusion.
It may help to realize that the unrest was largely artificial. New elections had been called, but the PDRC (Suthep) deliberately continued to mess up, forcing the army to intervene. Time and again when the country stumbles along the democratic path, forces from above intervene to safeguard interests. The army certainly does not commit coups for the good of the people but for the elite.
For example, read 'The Political Development of Modern Thailand' and 'Thailand Unhinged' by Federico Ferrara to better understand what governments and the military have been up to in recent decades.
I don't expect any problems in the run-up. So see no reason to avoid anything in the run-up. Perhaps after the elections if it is clear that cheating has taken place.
Looking at the exchange rate of the THB 35.90 against the Euro, the “world” apparently has a lot of confidence in the Thai currency.
At the start of the current regime, May 2014, the exchange rate was 44.10……..!!
In recent years, there has been more peace in the country among the military than in recent years before. It is certainly not military rule, as we know it from Burma. What we should not do, compare our Western democracy with this country. We also needed time to arrive at a good/reasonable parliamentary democracy. Tranquility and stability are factors for progress, and to a certain extent I see that increasing in small steps under this regime. Nevertheless, I am also in favor of a broadly supported parliamentary people's representation, but that process must take its course in Thailand over time, I think it will work out one day, optimistically.