สถานที่ท่องเที่ยว Life in the center of Bangkok continues with the usual crowded markets, the usual traffic chaos on the streets. The danger signals coming from outside: the news that you read the newspapers from the news, from the calls and messages coming from the Italian Embassy (which is working at full capacity to meet the emergencies of tourists) and the west .
Suvarnabhumi International Airport? occupied for several days, so? such as the Don Muang domestic flights. 350,000 tourists are stranded in Thailand, including 1,100 Italians and the number continues to increase. It 'difficult to understand what's happening and what will happen?, Even for the colleagues of the University? who have more knowledge? depth of mentality? and domestic issues. Ask, seek information. Here's the situation.
Representatives of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD - People's Alliance for Democracy) have occupied the airports of Bangkok, with a protest that has lasted for months, with the intention to dismiss the government. The current prime minister? replaces the previous one, which had replaced Taksin Shinawatra, the communications magnate, populist, accused of corruption and now repaired abroad. It is suspected that, in order to escape punishment, wanted to change the constitution at the hands of his men, pawns in his hand, currently in government. Democratically elected government, however.
Taksin (with its stand-ins) represents the image of a modern consumerist and Thailand, crafty, easy wealth. His supporters, the People's Power Party (PPP-People Power Party) are not only among the newly rich, but they are numerically dominant among the lower middle classes, especially among rural residents, sensitive to the promises and populism of the former premier.
The PAD, in contrast, collects the sympathies of the royalists, linked to traditional power, and then the army. Collects especially dislikes for a corrupt government and populist. It is they who, wearing the yellow jersey, took over the airports in Bangkok. Why? yellow? the color of the King of Thailand, and the king, who reigned for over fifty years? pi? all that we imagine we in the West. "If the king said to stop the occupation, we all listen to" Thai friend assures me. But the king did not say anything for now. On one hand, why? must stand above the parties, because the other? who denies the occupants, who does a military coup in Thailand can not? that to do so in his name. And 'the king who personifies the unit? and the pride of the country. And if you ever talk but then the king does not listen? What would happen?
In fact the government proves unable to resolve the situation, seems to have departed from Bangkok, while the police and army (the real power in traditional Thailand) do not intend to use force.
Since yesterday the representatives of the PPP, dressed in red T-shirts, took to the streets in Bangkok with the intention to face the rival of the DAP, dressed in yellow. For the moment there are no clashes, although yesterday a bomb? Don Muang airport exploded, one domestic flight, causing a victim and a dozen injured among the protesters of the PAD.
The PAD gathered the sympathies of intellectuals and the? Lites citizens who do not take kindly to the shameless populism and consumerism. However, the employment of the airports is leading to untold economic damage and more and more an image? unreliable Thailand. What? PAD lose confidence even among his supporters, who certainly do not see Taksin well, but even the financial ruin of their country.
Traditionally, the coups in Thailand are bloodless, are a physiological change in government, and this could be the solution. However, if new elections, today it is still Taksin and the PPP to win it. But also the complaints of those who will fight "until death" to oust a corrupt government organization and continue with full control, usually without violence. It seems that people, in a quiet and apparently peaceful Bangkok, take this story as a necessary event, all in all with resignation.
