From: fstawit@icomp01.lerc.nasa.gov (Tawit Chitsomboon)
Subject: Re: Provincial governor election
Organization: Institute for Computational Mechanics in Propulsion-NASA LeRC
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:24:42 GMT


In article <1992Nov13.003838.18263@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> 
thanon@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thanachart Numnonda) writes:
>emaruchi@meena.cc.uregina.ca writes:

>...................(Khun Bunlur)
>>        I think it's not a good time to have elected governor because people
>>in rural are still under the influence of money and mafia.  I don't want to
>>see mafia to legally take control of government matters, the people will be
>>in trouble.
>
>..............(Khun Thanachart)
> Why don't you trust them? THEY ARE POOR, BUT NOT STUPID.
> I have experienced lot of governors, and I found that many local mafias
> are supported by some appointed governors. Did you remember the May
> massacare? Which governor stood on the same side with people?
> ..Probably, only the Bangkok governor under PalangTham banner.
> Others try to support Gen. Suchinda, Why?
>

First, my site didn't get the original poster. In fact, I seem to not
get many post thesedays. Sometimes peole responded to my posts but
I didn't even get my own posts (especially when posted through Kent Gateway)!
My newserver seems to be as unreliable as LA government :-)


Anyway, I'm for governor election. I think the benefit far outweighs
the drawback. What I fear is that when they experiment with the thing
for only a couple of provinces and it turns out bad, they'll stop
short from a full implementation or even totally scrap it.

The real 'mafia' is the Interior Ministry. Be forewarned that they'll
lobby hard against this initiative because their egotistic role will
be dramatically reduced. We have given them 60 years to prove themselves
and they screw everything up including permitting may local mafias to
exist and prosper. It's time for them to get lost and let other new ideas
chances to prove themselves.

Actually, I prefer district governor election more than provincial
governor election. To me, PG is a figurehead. He is sort of a middle
manager whose duty is to relay policy from the central gov to be
implemented by the rural gov which is run by the first level manager
called district governor (naay-am-phEEr-) DG is the one who 
really know the problem because he is in close contact with the people.
If we want to improve our local communities we can do it most effectively,
IMO, through DG. With an elected PG and appointed DG from the central gov,
I don't know how the system will function when the cenrtal policy is
not compatible with the provincial policy. With the DG elected, however,
he has the mandate from the local people to implement policy even though
it is in conflict with the central plan (he still has to be within
bound of the central Constitutioanl law though.)

Escalating my thought up one more step, Why do we need a provincial
government anyway? IMO, it a wasted overhead in management. Can anyone
debate me what good is a provincial government? I think it can be
bypassed without hurting the system. In fact, it should help a great deal.

I'm relieved that I can finish this post with only a few sarcasms.:-)


-Tawit

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