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a launched a lawsuit to try to force the government to recognize same sex marriage they say current laws violate their constitutional rights and those are the headlines more news here after inside story. the thai opposition party is facing the act of backing the botched election bid by a princess what does it mean for democracy as thailand prepares for its first vote since the military took power five years ago this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm dennis thailand's election commission has recommended the dissolution of the policy that chose a princess to be its candidate for prime minister the march twenty fourth general election in this constitutional monarchy will be the first since a military coup in two of the fourteen we'll be discussing the impact of the looming ban on the thai rats the chop party with our guest in just a moment first this report from our correspondent wayne hay in bangkok. two weeks ago the time the chart party entered the political spotlight. as they launched their election campaign the leaders talked about the need for thailand to innovate . but the candidate chosen to stand as prime minister proved to be an innovation too far in a country where the monarchy is regarded as above politics princess who was ruled

ineligible after the palace in her nomination was in violation of royal tradition and culture and highly inappropriate after a complaint from an independent constitution monitoring organization the election commission has recommended that the court dissolve the party if the court agrees it would be the third dissolution of a political party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra who lives in exile after his overthrow in the two thousand and six military coup talks inch in a what has spent his political career fighting the establishment and on friday ties thought he had staged a major coup himself by having a member of the royal family fronting the campaign for one of his parties but it appears to have been a major miscalculation for dissolution would also mean the members of the party's executive committee would be banned from politics for a minimum of ten years. last week the party's advisor and

a long time taxon ally told al-jazeera about his concerns that the campaign and next month's election won't be free and fair is designed in the first players so that he. will be able to extend its power to thailand's military leaders who form the government since the latest coup in two thousand and fourteen removed texans main party a tie it still able to take part in next month's votes. the decision by the election commission to ban the tie rocks a chant party came the day after a t.v. station owned by the chena watts was ordered off the air for fifteen days the government's national broadcasting body said voice t v we showing provocative content that caused confusion and social division the fact that the punishment dealt out at this time you write about when you were heading towards a potential return to democracy. is highly inappropriate.

there are a few guarantees in thai politics but it's likely they'll be more volatility before thailand's first general election in almost five years on march twenty fourth wayne hay al jazeera bangkok so let's have a closer look at where thailand stands today the current government came to power in twenty fourteen in the twelfth military coup since nine hundred thirty two the head of the military council prior you try not to promise new elections within months of taking over but that send in to almost five years now there's a new constitution in place which many people actually think preserves the power of the military it's thought that the only real challenge comes from passes that there are aligned to tat's in shinawatra like the tyrants of child party which may now be out of the contest.

right let's introduce our guests now we've got two guests coming from the capital bangkok by skype we have. chae were wrong he is an academic and a politician and a former executive board member for the thailand democrat party in kong ken in north eastern thailand via skype we've got david struck first who is an historian and an independent scholar he's also in bangkok we have shown boone puracal who's a former national security advisor to the young love government welcome to you all sure let me start with you it seems to have been a massive gamble then for this party to have chosen the princess. to front their bid for the elections how big of a disruptor was this decision to go with the princess are actually it depends on who's points of view you're looking at from the those who believe in democracy i believe that there are there are ecstatic with this choice

she has a resign herself from the we're not because system she decided to play and include. everybody believe that of all the candidate choose capable of leading thyroxine chart to victory in combination with really what are possible other times who show in democracy look at mommy lies was it a wise money or sorry show was it really a strategic decision taken with a view of incorporating the monarchy in type politics everybody knows that it's it's illegal it's unconstitutional the royal family is supposed to stay out of politics and you can't even use their images in campaigning so it was designed to fail. but but that's the final point i'm trying to point out before that she

resigned from the monarchy that's her assumption and it was done in good faith it may have been risky to those who disagree those who believe in tradition and less. a less open minded about what thailand face in the future that's also an accepted view by those who who. in fact associated with the or those elite that behind this move to more or less dissolve the taj tyrus are shot party now that's understood right and david what do you think the intention behind the nomination of the princess actually was and what is what could have occurred if indeed it succeeded i mean that could have been an interesting fusion couldn't there in terms of of interest in thai politics i mean i don't i don't know that we know her motivations other

than that she is trying to create a role or of yourself outside at least to show a role family done so i think she would have been really interesting because. it is i spent a long feeling a kind of questioning about the monarchy as the powers had seemed to seem to be under side of the yellow shirts or the their opponents back and i did ten years ago so if her nomination had gone through it would have been i mean it's not interesting only that she wanted to become a politician but she wanted to become a politician with a very grassroots party and that would've that would have perhaps been a bridge between the grass roots in the monarchy in a way that's never been seen before right and crean sack. the fact now that the party that chose to take this rather risky gamble. as

a chart party now faces the the distinct possibility of being dissolved of being shut down i mean that impacts upon the general democratic landscape of the country and makes it obviously much less much less of a choice much less of a pluralistic situation full that is come march. is a subsidiary party to the could tie party in the same cluster in the inn on the side of the tax in the form of prime minister therefore. substantive of the number of seats would be not as many as been dissolved want to put the main party. but definitely every party every party seat counts in this election is total toto understandable how look at how soon would like to win this election by

backing a number of parties in the same class that will plant to win the election in the largest number possible to allow it to form a government like say so well you're saying are you saying crean sat that if the time the child party is dissolved it doesn't really have a massive impact upon the democratic offering for the people of thailand is that what you're saying it will not have a massive impact is in will see that dr toxins class through a parties will gain but you have impact definitely or in the least less likely chance for poor thai clusters among all the parties combined to have the large majority of the two houses combined three seventy six that means the majority of the overall house of five hundred plus the upper house senators of two or exceeds that will quite total together three seventy six and this will be

impossible for poor tide to come up with the number of seats right already stand a good chance if. came in it would be a better chance but now being this going to be dissolved likely going that way right then it would be less charts for sure all right sean coming to you now when looking at thai politics it's often described as being pretty much bipolar. in terms of there being the military in prior from the one hand aligned perhaps with conservative the conservative values of the country the elite and indeed the monarchy and on the other hand tax in and his affiliates who are much more populous and an derive a huge amount of popularity for him from the rural communities in thailand is that the best way of looking at thai politics today as you get ready for an election next month. it is a small less space a pond that you have to understand that the who more or less for the past five

years have not improved their country konami glee and because of that their enthusiasm about this upcoming election and the system is designed is rigged against. against pretty high tide and other alliance a centrally it's like do you have a party where the military support. has an additional two fifty sen to back to that's more than half of the vote which means that the military could hardly lose it's like even a four goal leads before the for what football match and then you go on to play and this is a fire play and therefore the the divide the political divide between the province and bought bangkok in the elites it's more or less our stew

there that has not changed substantially. hard is a big equation where the main charter was designed to bust up more or less put tie strength. outside democracy side the side it by creating tyrants shut which will project to win roughly between two to three million vote it could add a mixture of three to sixty or vote so is is by by election commission and the constitution forte sure to dissolve this it would cut down. democracy side by huge amount of numbers right david when private and his colleagues came to power in twenty four team and they made promises they made promises of of maintaining stability and getting rid of corruption and into. rather and possibly perhaps restoring happiness to thailand i mean what they have done i

mean they fulfilled this promise in part there has been stability in titan since twenty fourteen yes she once pointed out that the just the economy and maybe underperformed but that is a regional issue as well is not specific to thailand is it i mean and they've also guided the country through that seismic event of of losing king bhumibol well i mean i mean part of the reason protect their part of their reasoning for taking power was so they could oversee their make sure they got the candidate they wanted into that into the. kingship so you know is that is that step change i know i mean i that dichotomy you talk about it's more anti dictatorship. versus dictatorship and there's no it's not just action because a lot of our burghers highland political is taking steps backwards every time there's a coup or sort of decimates

a lot of infrastructure political infrastructure that democrats keep trying to build up and yet it gets knocked back down again we kind of start up sort of and now we're going to have an election in which you know it's been written it looks pretty unclear on that date of the new constitution and the stat said it almost ensures the military will stay in power in some form and not merely be democratic when you're right that let me put that to you because of course you're a former m.p. for the democrat party i mean is that your rather gloomy outlook with regard to the size of democracy in thailand when people presumably gaze at the polls next month i mean do you think it's a pretty much a waste of time the constitutional ready has the military firmly rooted in power come what may. it's better than no election let me fade sort of forthrightly

for election for democracy and therefore i like to have election as soon as we can love it and have no election at all but to be fair who's to do what happening the rule being written up in the constitution is clearly favoring the military side and the clusters that the military try to form to calve the majority in the two houses so that they can propel back crime is a pretty good once again and therefore we're going to election i have a good guess whether i like it or not i would not say but basically the prime minister per you have a good chance even lection happen under this with a march to return to power because all he needs is just two hundred seats on the senate set that he can appoint potentially plus one hundred twenty six seats from the five hundred seats lower house and that will make even the majority of the

two houses combined right that means you can we need election with them with one hundred twenty six out of five hundred seats and helpful you clearly could be right and it's not difficult for you to muscle that number by whatever we means and ways you can buy or bring order parties that want to be in government together especially if my former party join in it would be easier if they don't join in that would be a different story right now if this is not clear whether the my democrat former party is say these former party yeah i mean i'll tell you right now yeah absolutely i have all that more crap may join not join depends on the who is the party after the election right thank you for that let me get to shown soon and you all seem to be agreeing that there is a democratic deficit in the political system right. now you don't have a huge amount of optimism as to what march elections will yield tell me about the

mood of the thai people it wasn't that long ago that we saw bangkok pretty much. laid laid taken hostage pretty much by the different sides that the yellow shirts the red shirts who basically seized control of bangkok and put a stop to everything are people in thailand prepared to take to the streets again do you think. i believe under the strain that will change considerably we were told that those are the thing of the past. we have accepted that that is coming election and mostly the red have come to realize that for us to take up to the street it would be a no win situation and the the untac an instinct added to it

i believe the bangkok can still feel strongly against the provincial that has somewhat dated somewhat and that also you have to remember that the new crops of voters six million who a new political party in the future forward party are making inroads that candidates are really attractive trying to predict trying to predict what would happen in the future is really difficult but tie a mostly are really really hopeful before this tie rock star chart incident they thought that with the equation from different parties from new blood we could look forward and the mood are now unknown but i believe that no one really really change sides for those who want to vote for put high tyrants are shot they would win substantial vote in combination with the new six million black i

believe that we have a good chance to win the election but get not able to form the majority on the government right but then after two months general bridge your may have a hard time forming the government and we can vote down. no confidence when the but times come when the senate to the fifty vote no longer matter right aka david say sean is suggesting that. i guess in a free and fair electoral system that those supporting the red shirts those affiliated to tax in would win hands down in thailand but he's suggesting that even though the constitution is weighted in favor of price and his colleagues that there could be a parliamentary a parliamentary fight back should the red shed his allies attacks in do well in the election yeah i mean i mean they might get three hundred there i think they were

hoping to come you know how all together three seventy five i think that's out on now it might have been interesting had produced a didn't so what would happen now where we should when there's a lection there's a lessening of the more restrictive laws. affecting the. fact in public debate and so that's good but you know same time do so hamstrung because intuition is almost impossible to do a man at least under under the present rules so you know i mean there will be some public discourse at least after an election by you know just this particular car continuation will not reflect the people's voice it required the military still remaining or having a strong role in any future time and crean sat we've seen this kind of formula in other parts of the world which can be pretty. dangerous actually because people if

they feel that that political will is not being reflected in elections they can get rather angry how do you think the people of thailand might react if they feel this way come in the elections. i feel that the thai people are more tolerant than morse around the world and for them to come out it has to be educated badly given the situation of the past conflicts in the last more than a decade i think people have learned that it's not very useful to fight in the street it will not bring much materialism of what they want and therefore the court case are going on for those who are in the street and violate the law and today be just example of one side the yellow shirt being thrown in jail for what they did on the street and i think this if that is a pattern very few will come out in the future and i have for i have created our

listeners are more factors being engine ear or naturally educated it will not be likely that people come on street and shown if this constitution which is what a couple of years old if this constitution remains on the statute books in thailand i mean that's pretty much the end of tax in power electoral power if you like in thailand isn't it do you think that tax in and his clique are prepared to give up and give up on that on their bid to rue talent. i don't believe mr sachs in will give up but i do believe this is the reason why to effect the changes within the charter to rewrite it he believe that. if the princess of one route joined his party that type of change could.

more or less a revolution thailand in a sense that when he became the prime minister a lot of things were happening the. what we call one stop shop the thirty baht pork where i am. more or less diversified funds to the provincial and that's why he held the affection however the in the hopeful side of tired like. suggested that's why we are there we don't believe there will be a street protests and in a way we have hope for the future but it will be interrupted should to constitutional court make the ruling. to two more or less to solve tyra but vast really not a hopeful sign for thailand for the future either shown a boom prior kong david struck first and crean sat charlamagne thank you all very

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ground say the number of that could be much higher the presidents of russia iran and turkey are gathering in sochi for a fourth round of talks on syria it's the first meeting since the u.s. announced its withdrawal meanwhile al-jazeera sources say joint turkish and russian patrols have begun in aleppo and the u.s. says it seeking a new era of cooperation to confront threats in the middle east secretary of state might pump aoe was speaking at a u.s. led meeting to discuss the region's future elicit iran is one of the challenges tehran was not invited to the event being hosted by poland the world's largest passenger jet is having its life cut short air buses and then production of the a three eighty in two years time threatening thousands of jobs in outfit was made after a drastic reduction in orders by the super jumbos largest customer emirates to talk about where has more from toulouse. well let us bosses here and to do say that this is a very disappointing and painful moment for them they have announced the end all of

the a three eighty jet they say will end its production in twenty twenty one now this is a plane that school the super jumbo by aviation funds it is the world's biggest passenger jessica carry more than five hundred and forty people is a double decker a thing of engineering but over the years it has been plagued by delays and delivery rising costs and falling orders the final blow though was the fact that the divide based airline emirates decided to reduce one of its orders by thirty nine planes not simply meant for the a three eighty could not survive i think what we're seeing here is the end of a large four engine aircraft and that is what it is i mean there's been speculation . for years whether we were ten years to rebuild three eighty three becomes clear when we were probably at least ten years too late or more but in retrospect it's it's all easy however let me stress one point jim and i hope you appreciate because

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