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The Prime Minister of Thailand, Anutin Charnvirakulhas dissolved Parliament this Friday and called early elections in order to “return power to the people.” A decision that is recorded in the middle of the uptick in violence on the border with Cambodia, with cross bombings and deployment of armored vehicles that has left more than twenty dead this week.
In a decree also approved by the king Maha VajiralongkornCharnvirakul, who has been in power for just three months, cited the border standoff and other challenges for his minority government to justify calling the election. Thais will go to the polls within 45 to 60 days.
The text defends this decision by claiming that it is the “adequate solution (…) to obtain a stable majority government (…), so that the country’s administration can continue to function in a fluid and orderly manner” in the face of the current Executive and the “numerous internal political problems” it faces, such as the indignation caused by the management of the devastating floods of November.
“The appropriate solution is to dissolve Parliament… which is a way to return political power to the people“defended Charnvirakul, a business magnate who became the country’s third prime minister since 2023 last September.
Anutin, a business tycoon, is Thailand’s third prime minister since August 2023. When he took power in September, he said he would dissolve parliament at the end of January.
The decision was advanced hours earlier by the prime minister himself after the Popular Party, the largest political party in the opposition, threatened to present a motion of censure against the Government when legislators have voted in a joint session to demand that any constitutional amendment be approved by a third of the seats.
Anutin was sworn in as head of government of the Asian country at the beginning of September, after Parliament elected him as successor to Paetongtarn Shinawatrapermanently dismissed by the Constitutional Court. At the ceremony he promised to hold early elections within four months.
His election sought to put an end to the political crisis unleashed by Shinawatra’s suspension in July for “serious ethical negligence” by undermining the work of the Army during a conversation with former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a call that took place in the midst of the conflict unleashed between the two countries with dozens of deaths.
Trump mediation
On the other hand, Anutin Charnvirakul announced that he will speak by phone this Friday with the president of the United States, Donald Trumpto deal with the new wave of border clashes between his country and Cambodia, after the American offered to mediate in the midst of the escalation of the conflict.
The Thai leader foresees that the call will consist of “an update” on the situation on the border between Thailand and Cambodia, where both countries have been carrying out attacks since Sunday, with at least 24 dead, which represents the worst episode of violence since July, when five days of hostilities claimed around fifty lives.
“As for any decision or action, it is the responsibility of the Thai Government, which has given its support and mandate to the Thai Armed Forces to carry out the operations,” Anutin clarified.
Trump anticipated on Tuesday, during a political event in the state of Pennsylvania (USA), that he would call the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia, due to the military escalation at various points on their common border, about 820 kilometers long.
“If he (Trump) called me, in my capacity as head of government, I would explain and clarify how the situation has evolved to what we are seeing now. He would have to listen in detail to the information directly from me,” Anutin said the day before.
The new wave of attacks violates the two attempts to seal peace that followed the July clashes: the ceasefire reached the same month in Malaysia, mediated by the US and with China as an observer of the talks, and the peace agreement signed in October in the same country and promoted by Trump himself.
The Republican boasts of having put an end – albeit momentarily – to the violence unleashed in July, and from Pennsylvania he reiterated that the pacification of the conflict between Bangkok and Phnom Penh is part of the list of eight wars that he claims to have ended since he returned to power in January of this year.
The two Asian countries maintain a historic dispute over the sovereignty of several territories located on the border they share, about 820 kilometers long and mapped by France in 1907, when Cambodia was part of French Indochina.