Former army chief Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin talks politics while joining former and present generals in an event marking the setting up of the elite Special Warfare Command in Lop Buri on Friday. Gen Sonthi, who now leads the Matubhum Party, hopes there would be no delay to the roadmap which, he said, should be respected by the regime. In January, the NLA approved a section of the MP election organic bill which effectively delays the general election by up to 90 days from November this year. Gen Sonthi ordered troops and tanks to oust then-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Sept 19, 2006 in the first coup in 15 years. Eight years later on May 22, then-army chief Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha followed in his footsteps to unseat Thaksin's sister, Yingluck, and her government.

Source: Bangkok Post February 23, 2018 10:52 UTC