Die Analysen beschäftigen sich jetzt mit den neuen Chancen der Democratic Party, die BKK-Post titelt dazu, und gibt noch gleihc ein paar zusammenfassende Infos über die Abläufe, auch die Beschlagnahmen:
Patrician for premier?
ANALYSIS: By Peter Janssen, dpa
Chances of Abhisit Vejjajiva - the Oxford-educated 43-year-old leader of the Democrat Party - becoming Thailand´s next prime minister have risen in recent weeks in tandem with the downfall of his once arch rival - Thaksin Shinawatra.
On May 30, Thailand´s Constitution Tribunal aquitted the Democrat Party of committing fraud during the April 2, 2006 election, while on the same day it dissolved Thaksin´s Thai Rak Thai Party and banned its 111 executives, including Thaksin, from politics for the next five years.
Then on June 11, the graft-buster Assets Examination Committee (AEC) decided to freeze the bank accounts of Thaksin and his close family members,
tying up some 73 billion baht (2 billion dollars) in cash, although about 28 billion baht of that seems to have slipped the net. Thaksin´s cash [highlight=yellow:6d1f993f7f]was always one [/highlight:6d1f993f7f]of his winning assets in Thailand´s system of money politics.
Both developments were good news for the Democrats, Thailand´s oldest political party, which despite is venerable six decades of experience was soundly trounced in the past three elections by the Thai Rak Thai, now defunct.
As the Democrats´ leader, Abhisit´s bid for the premiership has gone from very remote to very real.
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