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It would appear that even the committee called by the government itself, which was boycotted by the anti-government group and Election Committee, has concluded that the Prime Minister should resign. In fact, constitutionality is a non-issue. When a person is incapable of discharging their office for any reason whatsoever, whether incapacity, personal issues, or having lost credibility by blatant abuses of power so that governance becomes impossible, it is in fact their duty to let someone else hold the reins. No leader ever needs constitutional permission to resign. Clinging to power is never mandated by any constitution in the world. To read a constitution in this narrow way is always to misunderstand the reason a constitution exists. You notice that I am not saying that the Suthepists alternative is right. Most ex-democrat party honchos carry too much moral baggage ever to head up a reform initiative. The idea that an arbitrarily composed committee can transform the country into a corruption-free, completely European-style system in 18 months is as pie-in-the-Sky as any notion ever put in by the Thaksinites. It took most western nations several centuries to reach this goal and there was a lot of backsliding ... and they are certainly not altogether there by any means. What these politicians must learn is the art of the possible. Yingluck remaining in power is not possible. Neither is an unelected reform committee containing people chosen by the opposition. What IS possible is dialogue — the one thing everyone seems to avoid — and once that is no longer possible, what follows is a failed state. The art of the possible means that we play the cards we are dealt. For a leader to resign takes courage, and an acknowledgment that one actually is a leader, not a puppet. No one will think the worse of Yingluck for resigning, and no one is going to jail her for that. (Other things, perhaps, but not that.) If she actually cares about the future of this country, her constitutional duty impels her to put that future first.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 01:39:55 +0000

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