While acting fast and decisively in delivering some policies, the government is detached from the people and may not be receptive to their needs to be reflected in the national strategy. The draft strategy is likely to pass the second and third readings and any such "ease" of deliberation should not be a hush-hush affair, he said. "The committee [superboard] is coded in the draft as though to provide an extension of [military] power. On the contrary, he said the strategy plan would be a catalyst for coups. The national strategy is binding on all agencies.

Source: Bangkok Post May 12, 2017 23:48 UTC