Yesterday we posted on Thailand’s scam failure. In that post we cited Rangsiman Rome who asked if the inaction on scams associated with Benjamin Mauerberger was because police were “just letting this happen?” He then asked: “Did someone request it? Who is it?”
A reader then pointed out a report at Thai Examiner on allegations about massive vote buying in Ubon Ratchathani, wondering if “grey” money is flowing into the election, shaping outcomes.
Vote buying is a design feature of the military junta’s 2017 constitution that engineers weak coalition governments. The question about “grey” money is relevant as the sums involved are enormous and the money required in 2026 probably exceeds the resources of provincial bosses, heroin smugglers and the usual crop of corrupt ministers.
To be clear, we don’t know, but the question of a potential scam election result is worth asking. And, PPT is not the first to make this point:
Political Prisoners in Thailand 
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