Remembering Thai Dreams of Checks and Balances

Now is the time to remember ‘Magnificent 14′ – The Nation, July 15, 2011
…It was in 2000, to be exact, when the whole nation commended the election commissioners and Constitution Court judges for being brave and politically unbiased, simply because they did not care who the big fish were.
Those were the halcyon days for the “independent organisations” set up under the much-praised “People’s Constitution” of 1997. One year before the EC swept away many high-flying senator candidates, powerful Democrat secretary-general Sanan Kachornprasart was indicted and banished from politics for faking a Bt15 million debt while declaring his assets and liabilities as a political office holder…

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