Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Thitinan Pongsudhirakis a Thai political scientist, speaker and Associate Professor at Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, where he is the Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies, Faculty of Political Science. He completed his PhD from the London School of Economics. He completed an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studiesof the Johns Hopkins University and B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara...
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The protest has put serious pressure on the government. But it has not reached the point where the government will collapse.
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The outgoing Senate has lost credibility and public trust over the past few years. The incoming senators will be hard pressed to cultivate a semblance of legitimacy given the ongoing crisis.