Students in it for the long haulAnti-dictatorship student activists plan to stage their next mass protest at Thammasat University's Tha Prachan campus on Saturday Sept 19. Worse still, they can't rely on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to come to their rescue. The prime minister should have supported Mr Predee, but he didn't and just kept quiet, letting Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam intervene by withdrawing the reshuffle issue from the agenda. The prime minister also did not confront then Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak and his economic team when they tendered their resignation. Students protests are a new thorn in the side of the government which now looks hapless, desperate and incompetent.

Source: Bangkok Post September 06, 2020 22:18 UTC