“Thai-Kini” Rama X. traveled from Bavaria to Thailand - to calm the situation down.
But at home he felt the anger of the population.
Thailand's King Rama X is
coming under increasing pressure at home - one of the reasons for this is his
stays in Bavaria
.
In a large petition, critics of the monarchy are now calling for a reaction from Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Meanwhile, the
king and queen are
in
Thailand
.
Rama X saw the anger of the protesters in his limousine this week (October 13th).
Bangkok - In
Thailand
, the
anger against the government and the king
continues to smolder
: Despite a ban on gatherings,
thousands of people took to the streets
in the
capital Bangkok
on Sunday.
For the fourth day in a row, pro-democracy demonstrators called
for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha to resign
.
According to the legal aid group “Thai Lawyers for Human Rights”, seven people were arrested during peaceful protests.
Among them was
Panupong Jadnok
, one of the few free minds in the democracy movement until then.
Officials in plain clothes took him away.
Unimpressed by this,
thousands of government
critics gathered nationwide
to protest
on Sunday
.
Rallies took place in around 20 cities.
The mostly
young demonstrators
occupied a large intersection in Bangkok despite tightened government measures and held up posters with images of arrested activists.
Apparently there was previously a delicate moment of shock for Bayern as a
"Thai-Kini"
known *
Vajiralongkorn alias Rama X
.
“Thai-Kini” under pressure: limousine gets into a protest march in Bangkok - son also flown out from Bavaria
According to a report by
Bild
, the monarch got into a demonstration with his limousine on Wednesday evening - young demonstrators apparently threatened to storm the car.
The police had to intervene.
Rama's son Dipangkorn Rasmijoti
is also said to have traveled to Thailand
from
Bavaria
.
The aim is apparently
to calm
the situation through the
presence of the royal family
.
Rama X. spends a large part of the year in Upper Bavaria, as
reported by
Merkur.de
*,
among others
.
The behavior met with some bitter criticism.
However, this new plan does not seem to work so far.
Prime Minister Prayut
declared a
state of emergency
on Thursday
, banning gatherings of more than four people.
The next day the police used water cannons against the demonstrators.
"Thai-Kini" now a case for Merkel?
Petition calls out for visits to Bavaria - "His Majesty disregarded all applicable regulations"
Meanwhile, critics of the monarchy have also sent a
petition
to the federal government around
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)
and
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD)
.
They demand that the king in Germany be declared a
"persona non grata"
.
"His Majesty preferred his personal comfort to the essential affairs of the kingdom," says the text accompanying the entry on the platform change.org - in this way, Rama, who even in Corona times, "can read all the regulations that apply in Germany and Thailand disregarded ”, a further stay in the Federal Republic of Germany will be prohibited.
More than 150,000 people had signed by Sunday evening.
We need your help
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- Miavelly Ma (@ Madmax07346763) October 18, 2020
According to a report in the
Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
Maas had
not ruled out political steps recently.
In the
Bundestag
Rama were
Bayern visits
on 14 October also subject.
"We have made it clear that politics that affect the country of Thailand should not be based on German soil," declared the Foreign Minister.
However, he did not hold out the prospect of diplomatic consequences for the monarch, but rather a freeze on
trade talks between the EU and Thailand
- if the government there continued to
aggressively oppose democratization
.
Thailand: Pro-democracy protest movement on the streets for days
The
pro-democracy protest movement
calls for the government to resign and for an open debate on the role of the monarchy in Thailand.
General Chan-o-cha has been
in power
since a
military coup in 2014
.
The democracy movement also calls for an end to the intimidation of citizens and political opponents.
The arrests of activists of the democracy movement also caused outrage.
Some of them face
life imprisonment
under a law that has not been applied for decades.
Meanwhile, there are ongoing protests against a head of state in Europe - tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Minsk.
(
AFP / dpa / fn
) *
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