Recognising honour in victory and defeat

Meechai Burupa praises the outgoing president of France for accepting defeat gracefully and not accusing winner Francois Hollande of buying votes. Perhaps the reason that Nicolas Sarkozy accepted defeat was because his opponent was not abroad trailing his country’s flag in the mud, and did not buy all of his votes. He also knows that Francois Hollande is mindful of the meaning of democracy, aware of the French constitution and respectful of it. What relevance this has to the recent election in Thailand I have no idea

Richard Bowler 

Bangkok