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Decadence on a grand scale: Does the “Thai-Kini” damage Bavaria's reputation abroad?

2020-10-11T13:18:56.917Z


Rama X., King of Thailand and has been primarily based in Upper Bavaria for years, is extremely unpopular with his people. Bavaria's reputation also suffers from the “Thai Kini”.


Rama X., King of Thailand and has been primarily based in Upper Bavaria for years, is extremely unpopular with his people.

Bavaria's reputation also suffers from the “Thai Kini”.

  • Rama X., King of Thailand, resides again and again in Upper Bavaria.

  • At the expense of the state, he lives there on a large scale - and is becoming increasingly unpopular.

  • Young Thais in particular are rebelling now - Bavaria is not doing well either.

Tutzing

- Our society actually loves rebellious

monarch children

.

Princes and princesses who do

n't care

about

etiquette

and, like Prince Harry, for example, are photographed drunk while partying, sometimes enjoy

cult status

- perhaps because they show that

blue-blooded

people are just normal people, with all the flaws and facets that go beyond them of the

throne

and

court etiquette are

part of reality.

Rama X.

, King of

Thailand

,

whose

full name is

Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun

and has often stayed in

Upper Bavaria

for years

, however, has

overshot the target when

it

comes to

"whistling against the standards".

This is exactly what is

becoming more and more of the undoing for

the 68-year-old, who

owns

a

villa on Lake Starnberg

, but usually stays in a

hotel in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district

during Corona times

.

The

king

attracts the

displeasure of

his

people

- and thus also on

Bavaria.

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The Thai King Maha and his long-time girlfriend Sineenat, who is now his second wife.

© dpa / Uncredited

Protests against the King of Thailand: The Free State of Bavaria's reputation is also suffering

Admittedly -

the

“Thai-Kini” could

never build

on the

popularity of

his

father Bhumibol, who was admired

by the

Thai people

.

His lifestyle is too eccentric and his

wastefulness

too decadent

.

Divorced several times and remarried to some significantly younger women, which is already an affront for many Thais,

Rama X.

does it

nicely in Bavaria at the expense of the state.

A

fun sightseeing flight

with a Boing 737, a Daimler from the

luxury brand Maybach

and not to forget the entire hotel that the king and his followers have been hogging for months.

All of this has its - certainly proud - price and the

"Thai-Kini"

pays it

with the

tax money of

his subjects, who rarely or never see him.

The aircraft alone, which the king calls his own, cost Thailand around

1.5 billion euros

- while the population of Thailand is getting poorer and the country is slipping into a major crisis.

#whydoweneedaking?

We need a 👑 so he can hide with a bunch of whores in a luxury hotel in 🇩🇪.

Long live the 👑 ... 😂

- Dr.

Simon Rup (@Simon_Rup) March 30, 2020

Protests against the "Thai-Kini": Rama X. abandons the people - and wastes their money in Upper Bavaria

But now

protests

are

stirring in Thailand

.

Young people in particular are forming up to

resist the monarchy

and the military government.

On the Internet, they

venture

under the hashtag

“#WhyDoWeNeedaKing”

(“Why do we need a king”).

They are demonstrating for

democracy and freedom of expression

and against a state that

still

provides

prison sentences

of up to 15 years

for

“lese majesty”

.

Such rules do not prevent the young protesters from calling the king

the fantasy villain of their childhood

at their

demonstrations

;

they call him "He whose name must not be mentioned", based on Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter novels and stick three fingers in the air during their protests - just like the young rebels from the science fiction series

Do

the "

Hunger Games

" in the fight against the

tormenting authorities

.

Hundreds of thousands gather on the streets of Thailand and hold aloft the images of the king and his

Upper Bavarian "homeland"

.

Bavaria

- for many young Thais almost a

dirty word.

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A pro-democracy protester raises three fingers as a symbol of resistance during a demonstration in Sanam Luang Park.

© Wason Wanichakorn

Fraud in Bavaria too: The King of Thailand takes out special rules - and gets away with them

In Bavaria itself, criticism of the

“Thai-Kini” is

much more cautious - after all, the king

also

leaves

one or two euros on the

shores of Lake Starnberg

and on the

edge of the Alps

during his

antics

.

The fact that he

has been

cheating

the

Free State

with a cunning trick of millions of

taxes

for years

- that quickly becomes a

minor matter

.

Criticism of

Rama X.

is also rather rare in Germany - that is the matter of the

Foreign Office

and the State Criminal Police Office, as research by the Augsburger Allgemeine revealed.

One does not find out more about this - not even after a request to the district office of the Upper Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is also affected.

Protests in Thailand: "Thai-Kini" Rama X. does not react to rebels - Foreign Minister Maas reacts evasively

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Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD).

© Stefanie Loos

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD)

now had to because of the

Thailand-King

also

criticism

listen.

The

Green MP Frithjof Schmidt

asked in the Bundestag how it could be that a foreign

head of state

, who neglects and burdens his people so much, is allowed to rule from German soil.

Maas answered rather evasively.

There are many

bizarre reports,

said the Foreign Minister, but in principle there is an interest in preventing

such behavior as that of Rama X.

, especially in view of the

protests in Thailand

.

The coming months will show whether this is really the case.

In

Thailand

itself, the

protests are

getting louder.

Perhaps it is also a

protective reaction on the part of the king

, who would rather stay in Bavaria and

know that

his son and hereditary prince are

safe from the

anger of the people

in

his

Starnberg villa

.

(

kah)

List of rubric lists: © picture alliance / Narong Sangna / Narong Sangnak

Source: merkur

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