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)
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