I was talking to the father of one of Aleena's classmates this morning. Based on some things I had heard, I thought that he was involved in politics. It turns out that he was an executive with the Chart Thai Party.
The Chart Thai party was recently disbanded by the Constitutional Court because one of it executive members (not the guy to whom I was speaking) was found guilty of electoral fraud. In addition to disbanding the party, the current Thai constitution imposes a five year ban from politics for all its executives.
There is a certain level of unfairness in banning someone from politics for something that they did not do. The Thai constitution purportedly was designed to clean up the corruption in Thai politics, but wields a heavy hand. It takes the "break a few eggs to make an omelet" philosophy instead of protecting the innocent even if it means a bad actor escapes view point.
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