Democracy must have good governance, says Prayut
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday addressed a group of people with disabilities, who came to see him during his fourth mobile Cabinet meeting in Phitsanulok province, with a rhetorical question: Do they want to have an election to find someone else to replace him?
If so, he said, he just wished that the new leader would work hard for the people.
Prayut went on to say that the new government should cling to the national strategy, or otherwise the state budget would be spent in a wasteful manner. They should also take care of people with disabilities, he said.
Prayut also met a group of farmers who filed a complaint with him about plunging rice prices. Some asked him to help find new water sources as water there is scarce during the dry season.
The Prime Minister also spoke about democracy, stressing that it should be equipped with governance and fairness.
At Piboonsongkram Rajabhat University, where he gave away land-use deeds to people in 14 the Northern provinces, PM Prayut said while it was true that the government should govern through democracy, that democracy must be equipped with good governance and fairness. Resources must be distributed fairly to all groups of people, and his government had been working on that during the past three years.
Prayut said he stepped in to office to get things back into order, not to create a burden for everyone. For example, he said, people could not let loose and encroach on forests; they should use the land as allowed.
Most important was creating a better quality of life for all people, and this was the ultimate goal of the national strategy, he said.