Military Appointed Team of Experts to Take Over Pattaya This Week.

**boloa** · 13-06-2016, 06:32 PM

Military Appointed Team of Experts to Take Over Pattaya This Week.

Pattaya was first granted city status in 1978 and since the beginning the residents have been able to vote for, and elect, their own mayor and councillors. It is the only city in Thailand outside Bangkok that has enjoyed that privilege.

Local elections have been held every four years and the City’s one-hundred thousand registered voters have been invited to select their own representation at City Hall.

The current mayor, Ittipol Khunpluem, son of Kamnan Poh, the man said to be the ‘godfather’ of Chonburi, was first elected in 2008. His second term comes to an end this week on Thursday June 16, 2016.

So, what next for the local Government?

Usually there would be another democratic election but as Thailand has been under military rule since May 2014 there are no plans for any more elections until late 2017, at the earliest.

Is the military coming to take over in Pattaya too?

Not quite, we are told. However, the military are appointing a committee of twelve members, with the current Pattaya City Manager, Wuthipol Charoenpol, taking over as acting mayor. And that’s all. Instead of an election there will be the appointment of a team of experts, chosen by the military.

It remains to be seen how that will all work out but, along with the arrival of a new police chief and a promise to clean up the crime rate in the town, there may well be a greater police and/or military presence on the streets.

Some would say this is a good thing. We are about to find out.

Military Appointed Team of Experts to Take Over Pattaya This Week. | Pattaya One, Local News in Pattaya Thailand

**Seekingasylum** · 13-06-2016, 06:49 PM

Given that the city has been: robbed blind for years by its mafiosi, wallows in floods of sewage contaminated rain water annually, is infested with 20,000 prostitutes and their pimps, is strangled by traffic congestion in a road network throttled by incompetent planners who have connived in a regime of unrestricted development ensuring the infrastructure cannot meet the needs of the population who daily have to endure the stench, pollution, filth and garbage created thereby, I honestly cannot see how things can change for the worse.

Still, give them time .........

**Maanaam** · 13-06-2016, 07:23 PM

Too early to say what the import of this is. Not enough information.
But it does seem like the current dynastic mayor is on shaky ground.

**Maanaam** · 13-06-2016, 07:24 PM

Not that I like Patts...despise it, actually, ....but democracy is democracy, and should be upheld.

**Gazza** · 13-06-2016, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Given that the city has been: robbed blind for years by its mafiosi, wallows in floods of sewage contaminated rain water annually, is infested with 20,000 prostitutes and their pimps, is strangled by traffic congestion in a road network throttled by incompetent planners who have connived in a regime of unrestricted development ensuring the infrastructure cannot meet the needs of the population who daily have to endure the stench, pollution, filth and garbage created......

But funnily, for some it's still 'Home Sweet Home'.

**Pragmatic** · 13-06-2016, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by Maanaam

but democracy is democracy, and should be upheld.

Is democracy when someone pays people to vote for them?

**Topper** · 13-06-2016, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by Maanaam

But it does seem like the current dynastic mayor is on shaky ground.

I was honestly surprised the mayor survived the coup. The police chief there at the time made a very hasty exit. I can't remember if the military caught the police chief.

**DJ Pat** · 13-06-2016, 08:03 PM

Shit, man!

Last time I heard it described by a Brit as paradise was in 2001

**KEVIN2008** · 13-06-2016, 08:44 PM

**BobR** · 13-06-2016, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

infested with 20,000 prostitutes

Leave the prossies alone and fix everything else. They're the only decent thing about Pattaya.

**Loy Toy** · 13-06-2016, 10:39 PM

Obviously have read MY BEWARE THREAD and taken action.

I wonder if I will win the Prime Ministers Award again................

**Neo** · 14-06-2016, 01:17 AM

Yup, just goes to show the Junta listen to the Door

**stroller** · 14-06-2016, 01:40 AM

Won't be long now before LT will be allowed to leave the house for a little nightcap.

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