Yingluck govt abandons duty to help Thaksin : Democrat
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The government has failed to meet expectations in all 16 of its policies due to a misguided focus of helping fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
“For the past eight months, the government has abandoned its duty of addressing the people’s grievances,” Democrat Party spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said Tuesday.
The government has no tangible achievements to show since it came to power, he said.
As for reconciliation, efforts were being devoted to helping Thaksin elude his conviction and punishment instead of mending fences.
Compensation payments were made to the red shirts while security forces and people impacted by the street protests received less assistance.
Despite the war on drugs, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board conceded that the arrest records for traffickers in the past six months were lower than those achieved during the Abhisit Vejjajiva administration.
For flood control, major plans were still on the drawing board and not yet implemented.
The South saw 1,461 people killed in the past eight months and the car bomb attacks in Hat Yai and Yala were suspected to have been triggered by Thaksin’s meddling.
On the wage hike policy, the government could not raise the minimum wage to Bt300 per day and implement Bt15,000 salary for university graduates in the civil service as unconditionally promised during campaigning.
The corporate tax cut was the only policy where the government had fulfilled its pledge.
