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Change Thailand for the Better

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15 Key Policies

Change Thailand to Not Be the Same

Good Politics

Good Life

Bright Future

A whole new constitution

  • Dismantle the inheritance mechanism.
  • Close the gap for future coups.
  • Drafted by a CDA that comes from an election.

Return 10M rai* of land to the people

  • Turn ALRO land into land titles fairly.
  • Pay off elderly farmers’ debts; pay up to half, and the government pays off the other half.

* 10M rai ≈ 40K km² or 4M acres

Electric buses for every province, drinkable tap water

  • Increase the budget to 10B baht/year for improving public transportation.
  • Increase the budget to 7.5B baht/year for improving the water supply system.

Abolish compulsory military service

  • Reform the military.
  • Separate the military from politics.
  • Give the military’s lands and businesses back to the people.

Yearly (minimum) wage increase

  • Increase the minimum wage every year; starting at 450 baht immediately.
  • Work under 40 hours/week, if over must get OT payment.

Make jobs, fix the country

  • Turn the country’s problems into making new industries(, e.g., smart water meters, electric batteries).

Police on the side of the people

  • Stop bribes, extortion, “(elephant) tickets”, nepotism, and appointing Commissioner Generals.
  • Accountable to the public.

Receipt lottery, helping SMEs

  • Shop at minor stores, both sellers and buyers get lottery tickets.
  • Increase handicaps - inject capital - reduce expenses - reduce taxes for SMEs.

Revolutionise education

  • Design a new curriculum, focus on practical skills.
  • Safe schools — no authoritarianism.
  • Give back teaching time to teachers.

Transparent state without fraud

  • Disclose government information.
  • Install fraud detection AI.
  • Expose fraud, (ensured) safety, get money.

Welfare to decrease inequality

  • 180-day maternity leave.
  • Young children living allowance 1,200 baht/month
  • Old age living allowance 3,000 baht/month
  • System to take care of bedridden patients.

Healthy both physically - mentally

  • Free annual health check-ups, both the check-up fees and travel cost. Includes mental health check-ups and screening for 6 types of cancer.

Governor election for every province

  • Decentralise power to localities.
  • Increase local budget, +20M baht/year per subdistrict.

Reduce electricity charge immediately 70 satang/unit

  • Stop sucking up to giant power resource companies. Stop willy-nilly giving out power plant concessions.
  • “Revenue-making roofs”; install solar panels, sell the electricity back to the government at market price.

Be serious with global warming

  • Set an upper limit for greenhouse gases emission.
  • Aiming for Net Zero by 2050.

Move Forward Party | Full-Fledged Democracy

Make an entirely new constitution

Referendum within 100 days

  • Can immediately be done by the cabinet.
  • No need for the Senate’s votes.
  • Ask the people if they want a new constitution.

Elect a Constitution Drafting Assembly

  • Draft a new constitution by the CDA who comes from an election.
  • The CDA has the authority to make an entirely new constitution.

The People’s Constitution

  • Close the gap for future coups.
  • Dismantle the inheritance mechanism (senate / constitutional court - independent entity / 20-year national strategy).

Reform the military & security missions

Separate soldiers from politics

  • Adjust the structure so the military is under a civil government.
  • Abolish the special mechanisms (council of defence, military court, ISOC).

Transparent military with accountability

  • Reduce secret budgets, publicly disclose information, appoint a military inspector, give military land back to the people, give military businesses back to the government.

Modern military, up-to-date with the world

  • Reduce military size by 30–40%.
  • Reduce the number of generals.
  • Abolish compulsory military service, build career soldiers.

Privates are safe - secure - have a bright future

  • Salary transfers are direct - complete - no deduction - no change. Increase social security rights.
  • Abolish violence in camps. Fair promotions-transfers.

Make peace in every area

  • Repeal the declaration of martial law in the southern border.
  • Overhaul the special security laws (martial laws, Emergency Act).


Protect the liberty and rights of the people

Protect the freedom of expression

  • Amend laws (112 / 116 / SLAPP / Computer Act / Public Assembly Act).
  • Abolish the government’s Anti-Fake News Center.

Make a fair judicial process

  • Protect the right to bail of the suspect.
  • Punishment increase - decrease based on an income basis.
  • Reform prisons, focus on rehabilitation - decrease relapses.

Transparent court with accountability

  • Judges must disclose their inventory.
  • Add verification - removal mechanism by the people.

Return justice to the people

  • Sign (and ratify the Rome Statute of) the ICC (International Criminal Court).
  • Amnesty for people prosecuted with political charges.

Move Forward Party | Provinces Manage Themselves

Elect provincial administrators

Local governments provide public services

Gubernatorial elections for every province

  • Make a referendum, ask people if they want to abolish appointed governors for every province to have the chief executive officer come from an election.
  • Merge the governor and the chief executive of the PAO into one role that comes from an election.

Local governments can provide any public services except military - court - currency - foreign affairs

  • The power and duty to provide public services in the whole area belong to the local governments.
  • The central government only set the national standards and design indicators.

Referendum to abolish provincial governments, nobody unemployed - disadvantaged

  • Make a referendum, ask people if they want to abolish provincial governments to transfer the provincial administrative power and staffs from the provincial governments to the local governments.

Transfer power to the local governments

  • Transfer the management of roads/streets - canals - water sources to the local governments.
  • Transfer the management of transportation - environment - land registration to the local governments.
  • Transfer the licensing of factories - hotels - service facilities to the local governments.

Government officers under every affiliation have equal dignity and rights, can relocate progressively

  • Government officers under every affiliation get equal privileges and career advancements.
  • Build a mechanism to (be able to) conveniently relocate between local governments & between local and central governments.
  • Increase local government’s power to administrate - choose - design staff allocation.

Abolish the regulations and orders of the NCPO that restrict - interfere with local governments

  • Abolish the NCPO’s Order No.8/2560 that interfered with personnel management of the local governments.
  • Abolish the Ministry of Interior’s regulations that restrict the power of local governments.

District governor elections for every district of Bangkok

  • Organise elections for “district governors” (same as a chief executive of the SAO / mayor).
  • Organise elections for “district councils” (same as an SAO council / municipal council).
  • “District directors” to act as “deputy district governors” (same as a chief administrator of the SAO / municipal clerk).


Increase provincial self-management budget

Transparent local government with accountability

Increase self-management budget for every local government nationwide

  • Increase budget that the local governments can decide for themselves what to do with it. By the 4th year;
  • Local governments nationwide: +200B baht/year
  • Provinces (on average): +250M baht/year
  • Cities (on average): +100M baht/year
  • Sub-districts (on average): +20M baht/year

Disclose every baht of budget information - every step of procurement

  • Disclose information on operations of local governments.
  • Develop fraud-detecting AI system, analyse data and automatically notify fraud.

Local governments have new ways to make money, e.g., loaning money - issuing bonds

  • Local governments can make money through new ways without having to ask for permission from the central government (e.g. loaning money, issuing bonds, joint ventures with the private sector, setting up syndicates, making their own local enterprise).

Citizen council meetings, every locality, every quarter

  • Hold a “citizen council” meeting for every locality every 3 months.
  • Let the people inquire after - complain to - suggest to the local government executives directly.

Adjust formula, fairly distribute budget, decrease inequality between areas

  • Adjust the formula for calculating the subsidies for local governments from the central government to be more fair.

People can petition online, suggest projects - legislations, remove local governments

  • Make a platform which lets the people (i) suggest projects and vote to support, (ii) petition to suggest local legislations, (iii) remove executives or members of the local council.

Move Forward Party | Government for the People

Transparent state without fraud

Responsive government services, worth the taxpayers’ money

Disclose government information immediately, the people are the owner

  • Government information must be mainly public, private ones are only exceptions.
  • Disclose the information in a way that can be further analysed (machine readable).

Every of the government’s public services can be done on your phone

  • Every government transaction can be done through a single application on your phone.
  • Everybody has a Digital ID Card, linked information in every sector.

Fraud-detection AI technology

  • Use AI technology to analyse data and automatically notify fraud(ulent activities).

Welfare money transferred automatically, no waiting, no registration

  • Young children living allowance transferred immediately upon notification of birth.
  • Old age living allowance transferred immediately upon reaching 60 years old.

“Splintered Fraudsters” project

  • Motivate people who are thinking of committing fraud to be suspicious of themselves instead.
  • Protect people who come out and reveal information first.

No silence once reported, update on every step

  • A central system to monitor the status of reports and public services.

“Expose Fraud, (Ensured) Safety, Get Money” project

  • Protect officers who expose fraud.
  • Increase bounty for people who point to clues.

Abolish 50% of licences, abolish all laws that are obstacles

  • “Guillotine” laws - licences, lead by the people and the private sector.
  • Reduce “costs” that are unnecessary to the business sector and the Thai economy.

No using government funds to promote yourself

  • Only use the public relations fund to advertise the accomplishments of the agency/sector/institution.

Get licence results within 15 days

  • If the government agency/sector/institution doesn’t consider the request within the time frame (15 days), it’ll automatically be considered as approved.

NACC on the side of the people

  • The NACC has diverse origins and gained approval from every side.
  • The people can petition to remove the NACC.

Overhaul public service assessment, “happy people, good officers”

  • Indicators linked with the people’s well-being.
  • Government officers get promoted from “accomplishments” more than “seniority”.

Quickly adjustable budget, organised from zero every year

  • Organise the budget from urgency and size of the problem each year instead of only basing it on past years (zero-based budgeting).

Move Forward Party | Police Protect Public Peace

Police motivated, work honestly

Police aware of human rights

Fair progress - relocation, no “(elephant) tickets” - nepotism

  • Evaluation based on accomplished work, police officers with talent and honesty can progress.
  • Abolish patronage on every level from the highest chief commander level.
  • Increase the opportunity of non-commissioned officers with good work to be promoted to commissioned officers.

Give hair back to the police officers, no mandatory crew cut

  • Abolish crew cuts, give the right to bodily integrity back to police officers.
  • Adjust the police education curriculum, add training and instructing on human rights.

Police officers of every gender can become a commissioner general

  • Every gender can register as a police cadet.
  • Every gender has the opportunity to be fairly promoted in any line of work.


Police on the side of the people

Police work effectively/efficiently

Commissioner General on the side of the people

  • Adjust the Police Commission (PC)’s composition to have civil representatives from both the opposition and the government.
  • Prevent the usage of patronage or the usage of police officers as a political tool.

Reduce inquiry officials’ burden, share their work with police in other lines of work

  • Increase power of protection and suppression police to be able to settle minor cases without having to send them off to inquiry officials.

Province - police serve the people together

  • Form a “Provincial Public Safety Policy Committee” with representatives from local governments and the public sector.
  • Evaluate the local police in the area together and balance out the appointment of the provincial commander.

Female officers in every police station

  • Push for female police officers in every police station along with training and evaluating every officer who are responsible for sexual harassment cases, to make sure that every victim feels safe to come and report.

Police inspector, people have ways to report police

  • Set up a mechanism to inspect police complaints from the people or the police themselves, independent and separate from the Royal Thai Police, direct to the parliament.

Move Forward Party | Complete Welfare

Children

  • Newborn gift 3,000 baht, buy items for babysitting.
  • Young children living allowance 1,200 baht/month.
  • 180-day maternity leave, father and mother can share.
  • Child care centres - nurseries near your home. Lactation rooms in offices/workspaces.

All Ages

350,000 start-off houses, the government helps to pay by instalments - rent.

The Youth

  • Free education, free meals, school buses.
  • Horizon-broadening coupon for extracurricular learning, up to 2,000 baht/year.
  • Abolish mandatory military service, don’t have to become a soldier if you don’t want to be one.
  • VAT-free sanitary pads, given for free in schools.

Drinkable tap water for every province.

Improve piping nationwide.

Electric buses in every province.

Bus - train; 8–45 baht for the entire line in Bangkok.

Labourers / Workers

  • Increase minimum wage annually, starting immediately at 450 baht per day.
  • No more than 40 hours of work per week, if over, must get OT payment.
  • Every labour group can form a union in accordance with the principles of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
  • Universal social security; receive benefits - travel expenses to the doctor when ill.
  • Coupon for skill enhancement - changing careers 5,000 baht/year.

Free 1 GB per month internet data top-up.

Lifetime learning platform, unlimited free learning with job placement system.

Seniors

  • Old age living allowance 3,000 baht/month.
  • System for taking care of bedridden patients, average budget 9,000 baht/person/month.

Disability allowance 3,000 baht/month.

Full funeral expenses 10,000 baht.

Complete welfare 650 billion baht, we have the money to pay and it can be done.

See the source of the budget at:

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Move Forward Party | Progressive Agriculture

Land

Reform entire land system, return 10M rai of land to the people

Title deed verification fund 10 billion baht

  • Settle disputes.
  • Issue land title deeds.

Turn ALRO land into land titles fairly

  • Name matches, title deed issued immediately.
  • Name doesn’t match, title deed issued after verification (no more than 50 rai/case).

Turn cooperative industrial state land into land titles immediately everywhere

Establish the Land Bank, distribute land ownership to the people

Change the land tax system, reduce the inequality in land ownership

Debt

Debt relief for farmers, various options to choose from

Relief BAAC debt

  • Elderly farmers if half of their debt has been paid, the government will give the rest immediately.

Debt-relieving trees

  • Government leases farmers’ land growing valuable trees.
  • Debt relief from day one.
  • Extra trees in 20 years.

Debt-relieving roofs

  • Government instals solar panels for free.
  • Farmers sell electricity to relieve debt.

End of the era of making money to pay off interests, every baht paid has to go to the principal before the interest

Cost

Reduce cost of water - fertiliser machinery

  • Distribute water resource development budget to local governments, covering areas outside of the irrigation zone.
  • Buy 1 get 1 free for tailor-made fertilisers. Cheap NPK through cooperatives, farmers groups, and community enterprises.
  • Support for animal domestication; reduce cost, increase funds, expand market.
  • 0% interest instalment plan for drones, ploughs, harvesters, planters, farming machineries.

Innovation

Promote processing, increase the value of agricultural goods

  • Progressive liquor, increase the value of agricultural goods.
  • 1 locality 1 agricultural goods processing plant.
  • School - hospital food from the community. Cut the agricultural goods cycle, no going through middlemen.
  • Global market liberalisation; reach out to - negotiate with partner countries, create opportunities for Thai farmers.

Expansion

Find new income sources for progressive Thai farmers

  • Free certification for GAP - GMP - Organic Agricultural Standards! Global exportation of high-quality agricultural goods.
  • “Intergenerational agriculture”; hire new-generation farmers to teach senior farmers how to use technology.
  • Unlock farm stays, turn paddy fields into income. Build an agricultural tourism industry.

Move Forward Party | Fair Economic Growth

Firm Ground

Strong small businesses

Fair Game

Fair competition rules

Power-up SMEs, increase the chance in growing

Destroy monopolies in every industry

Increase funds

Hundred-thousand-baht startup funds 200K cases/year.

Million-baht seeding funds 25K cases/year.

No collateral required, guaranteed by the TCG.

Improve trade competition laws

Add the power to stop businesses from merging - order businesses to unmerge.

Repeal the exclusion of public enterprises.

Facilitate consumers in filing a lawsuit.

Increase market (share)

Store shelf quota for SME goods in big malls.

Coupon to exchange for local products.

Example: Increase competition in the financial industry

Increase the amount of Virtual Bank licences by at least 3 times.

Reduce the restriction ceiling for authorised capital by 10 times to 500 million baht.

Increase advantage

“Receipt lottery”; purchase goods from small stores, free lottery (tickets) for the buyer and seller.

Lower taxes for businesses that purchase goods - services from SMEs.

Example: End the energy monopoly

Open a free market for selling - buying electricity, the government takes care of the distribution system.

“Fair electricity bill”; cheap and fair for the people.

“Income-making roofs”; open up a free solar cell industry.

Cut expenses

Reduce SME corporate tax to 0–15%.

Increase deductible expenses for tax purposes from 60% to 90%.

16 billion baht to alleviate the impacts of increasing the minimum wage.

Example: Push for progressive liquor

Unlock the liquor production of small producers and local liquor, increase the value of agricultural products for farmers.

Increase bargaining power

Form an SMEs council for every province.

Redefine “SMEs”, prevent large corporations from splitting into small companies.

Move Forward Party | Fair Economic Growth

Fast Forward Growth

Push new economic machineries to connect with the global supply chain

Electric bus - lorry industry

Creative economy

Protect artistic freedom, abolish censorship

Remove the section banning films that go against (public) security.
Remove laws that are obstacles to the freedom of expression.

Government doesn’t interfere - act like a moral police - freeze culture.

Push for electric transport

Implement measures that encourage transport operators that are still using diesel - NGV - LPG to turn to electric vehicles.

Protect the welfare of creative workers

Establish standards and add conditions that require all media production contracts to be fair, along with laws that ensure safety.

Protect children’s rights and intellectual properties.

Electric buses for every province

Aid local governments with a 10 billion baht budget to push for the operation of electric buses.

Horizon-broadening coupon, extracurricular learning

Issue 1,000–2,000 baht coupons per year for the youth for learning, creative, and cultural activities.

Turn every bus electric within 7 years

Set a new standard for buses serving the public according to the transportation operator’s licence to all be electric.

Government gives bonuses for exporting

The government will help with the budget of creative works that can penetrate the world stage market.

Water supply - management industry

Increase production and display spaces for creative works

Increase the spaces for producing and displaying creative works that the government subsidises (e.g. co-studio).

Destroy the monopolies in the creative industry

Seriously enforce the trade competition law.

Improve the water supply system

Have procurement from domestic entrepreneurs, e.g., smart water meters that are produced domestically, both in terms of their components and final product.

Turn the Ministry of Culture into the Ministry of Social Economy and Creative Culture

Connect the ministry’s mission with creating economic value and body of knowledge for the society.

Complete green economy

Increase the budget for supporting the creative economy by 10 times

Increase the creative economy promotion budget to at least 5 billion baht.

Promote renewable energy technology

Support research on renewable energy technology, industries involved in the conversion to renewable energy, and other downstream industries.

Chip industry

Support solar cells in households

Promote the installation of solar cells in households. Set up a net metering system to reduce the burden on household electricity bills and make money from selling electricity from solar energy to the government at market price.

Promote the electrical electronics industry

Support the creation of an electrical electronics industry from the upstream which are essential components in modern electric devices.

Investment promotion packages that can actually attract target investors.

Made with Thailand

Thai people, Thai-style production, Thai patents.

Link and become a component of the global supply chain.

Turn information into treasure

Complete - linked information

Build roads to allow the linking of information under the same standards.

Secure information

Mechanisms for controlling privacy and protecting the safety of the information.

Systematic storage - usage of information

Build a data warehouse to readily store data resources which will become treasures for the private sector in building platforms, creating new services, and reducing startup costs for new businesses.

Move Forward Party | Education Revolution

Truly free education

  • Free education, free meals, school buses.
  • Every school has enough budget and teachers.
  • Transparent schools, no corruption.

Safe schools — no authoritarianism

  • Clean toilets, safe facilities.
  • Counsellors for depression.
  • School rules must not violate human rights principles.
  • Suspend the licence of teachers who violate rights.
  • Abolish lining up, use the time for other activities.
  • Non-compulsory school uniforms, parents can use the budget for other things.

Raise the quality, create globally up-to-date people

  • Design a new curriculum, focus on practical skills.
  • Good and quality class hours, reduce school periods - homework - exams.
  • Reduce mandatory subjects, increase optional subjects.
  • Bilingual schools, students can speak English.
  • History class focuses on analysis - deliberation/discussion.
  • Promote educational technologies.
  • Reveal every past TCAS exam with answers.
  • Single rate TCAS fee, no more than 500 baht.

Give teachers back to the students, give value back to the teaching profession

  • Abolish giving teachers night duties.
  • Reduce the teachers’ paperworks - general affairs.
  • Abolish ceremonies for assessment - receiving guests.
  • Students assess teachers, teachers assess directors.
  • Training budget for teachers - schools, decide for yourself on what to learn.
  • Increase compensation for newly appointed teachers 20,000+ baht/month.

Support lifelong learning

  • Horizon-broadening coupon for extracurricular learning, up to 2,000 baht/year.
  • Free education from vocational to high vocational certificate, have a job once graduated.
  • Lifetime learning platform, unlimited free learning with job placement system, can work for certification.

Decentralise power in education

  • Distribute power to schools.
  • School boards must have student representatives.
  • Budget that the student council can choose to use by themselves.
  • Youth Council that comes from an election, able to propose laws to the parliament.

Move Forward Party | Healthy Both Physically - Mentally

Good physical health

Good mental health

Free annual health check-ups, both the check-up fees - travel cost

Annual health check-ups must also have mental health checks

Free screening for 6 types of cancer, no need to wait for the doctor’s order, included in the annual health check-up

(Colorectal, prostate, liver, lung, breast, and cervical).

Complete mental health care

Increase personnels, expand the List of Essential Medicines, unlock therapy with telemedicine.

Free additional vaccines for children and adults

(e.g. influenza, dengue, rabies, varicella/chickenpox, pneumococcal).

Youth clinics

Receive consultants without having to report to parents - school.

Free glasses up to 18 years old

Included in the universal health coverage rights for people with a vision disorder.

Create a society conducive to good mental health

(e.g. education that’s not overly stressful, adequate rest time from work.)

Rewards for being healthy

Increase the motivation to keep healthy with a health score that can be used to purchase products.

Create a mental health front line

Raise everybody’s skills in helping take care of - cure - restore the mental health of people close to you.

Increase options, treatable close to home

Improve SHPHs & local public health centres (primary care units)

Rotate doctors from district hospitals to come and operate in SHPHs.

Unlock telemedicine system

Amend regulations to be able to do telemedicine without having to have a check-up.

Receive free prescription for terminating a <12-week gestation pregnancy at every SHPH

Access doctors to receive medicine with free consultation after termination.

Increase the hospitals’ capabilities

Seamless transfers - bed placements with a centralised bed management centre and a health data linkage system

Proactive increase of organ donation numbers by asking every time somebody renews their ID card or driving licence

Decrease overcrowding in hospitals, block emergency rooms (ER) out for emergency situations only

Rehabilitate patients outside of hospitals

Elder bedridden patient care fund

Average budget of 9,000 baht/person/month

Palliative care centres in communities of every district

Develop skill-building courses for professional caretakers.

Homecare equipment bank

Lending system for equipment that the government procured or private individuals supported.

Take a leave to say goodbye

Increase paid time off for workers to take care of terminally ill parents.

Good death

Protect the right to honourably terminate one’s own life for people who suffer from incurable physical diseases.

Take care of medical personnels

Decrease work hours of medical personnels

No more than 60 hours of work per week.

Must be able to rest for 8 hours if worked for 24 hours continuously.

Fair pay for medical personnels

Adhere to “the more you work, the more you get”.

Develop specialised VHVs

(e.g. nutrition, psychology, physical therapy).

With compensation according to the work - results.

Turn rescue volunteers into careers

Have specialised certificates - skill-development funds - welfare.

Move Forward Party | Equal Society

Gender equality

VAT-free sanitary pads, given for free in school

Remove the collection of value-added tax for products in the menstrual category.

Give free sanitary pads in schools and SHPHs.

Marriage equality

Every gender can marry each other and have equal rights as spouses in every aspect.

Reform sex education

Give importance to consent - gender diversity principles.

Teach about physical topics openly and straightforwardly.

Acknowledge every gender, voluntary titles

Protect the rights of the people to use voluntary titles.

Restructure the government and laws to support and acknowledge every gender.

Female officers for every police station

Train and evaluate every police officer in charge of sexual harassment cases to support and make every victim feel safe to come and report.

180-day maternity leave, father and mother can share

Father and mother can divide the leave at their convenience.

Formal workers get compensation for the 180 days.

Informal workers get 5,000 baht/month × 6 months

Improve sexual violence prevention laws

Plug the holes in the laws to (better) include societal problems.

Educate and assign government agencies to have a mechanism for tackling sexual harassment problems.

Child care centres near your home, lactation rooms in offices/workspaces

Increase the budget for LGOs to manage child care.

Stipulate office buildings to have child care facilities and other related stuff.

Pregnancy termination for under 12-week gestation

Women with less than 12-week gestations can see a doctor at SHPHs near their houses and get a prescription for abortion pills, free consulting after the termination included.

Free cancer screening, no need to wait for the doctor’s orders

Free screening for the 5 cancer types most frequently found in Thai women for people at risk (breast, colorectal, liver, lung, cervical) included in the annual health check-up.

Equality for ethnic groups - indigenous peoples

Unlock citizenships and personal status

Speed up consideration of the 450,000 Thai nationality registration requests.

Speed up the process of personal status determination to be finished.

Assure the right to universal health care for everyone.

Develop an ethnic “special cultural ecological zone”

Create jobs in areas (green economy and creative economy).

Protect and promote cultural ecological agricultural areas.

Conserve and utilise natural resources in the area equitably.

Increase the role of Thai ethnic groups on the global stage

Protect and promote the rights of ethnic groups according to international laws.

Connect the ethnic groups in Thailand with the ethnic group networks in other countries.

Support the cultural and intellectual study - research of ethnic groups.

Issue documents to acknowledge rights in conservation areas

Set conditions on land utilisation to be appropriate to the conditions and landscape of the area.

Equality for the disabled

The government must hire 20,000 disabled people

Improve the matching of the private sector with disabled people who are looking for a job.

Buildings - constructions hold to the “universal design” principle

TORs of new buildings/constructions must have a category for people with disabilities. Take the budget from the fund to improve existing government buildings/constructions.

Disability allowance 3,000 baht/month

Reduce the burden of registration, every disabled person gets paid immediately once they have a medical certificate.

Religious equality

Monks can vote

Return the voting rights to monks and Buddhist priests.

Abolish the alcohol sales - animal slaughter ban on Uposatha days

Abolish the ministerial regulations that restrict the rights of the people for religious reasons.

Move Forward Party | Be Serious With Global Warming

Offence: Deal with the source of greenhouse gases, towards net zero within 2050

Open a free market for clean energy

  • “Income-making roofs”, free the household solar cell (market).
  • “Unlock regulations”, build a market for the buying - selling of electricity of the people.
  • “Discharge every coal power plant” by 2035.

Sustainable agriculture

  • Get rid of burning within 3 years, adjustment budget 3M baht per sub-district for 1,000 sub-districts.
  • Turn burning into money in the farmers’ pockets, budget to support “wet-and-dry” rice planting instead of burning.

Build a corncob processing industry instead of burning.

  • 1 ranch (at least) 1 biogas digester, turn waste methane into energy.

Earth-friendly transportation

  • 100% electric buses for every province within 7 years.
  • “Free public transportation day”, campaign against the usage of personal vehicles.
  • Change trains from old diesels to electrics.
  • Free vehicle inspection! Once a year.
  • Regulate the amount of lorries and trucks in urban areas.

No wasted food waste

  • Increase the value of food waste in big malls, mandatory sorting - data collecting - food waste list making.
  • Trade in food waste in exchange with organic farming products.

Promote communities to make fertiliser from food waste to be coupons for buying organic farming products, 1 kg of waste can be exchanged for 1 baht.

Be strict with the industrial sector

  • Set the ceiling and open the market (Cap & Trade)

Set the cap on industrial emissions of greenhouse gases.

Open the market for selling and trading quotas.

  • Disclose information (PRTR Act)

Force all factories to disclose information on dangerous chemicals and greenhouse gas emission.

Green spaces with green jobs

  • Debt-relieving trees, the government pays off the debt as rent in exchange for using the farmer’s land to plant and grow perennial plants.
  • Pension trees, growers receive monthly income 1,200 baht/rai/month for 20 years.
  • Support forest plantations, aid farmers with 4,000 baht/rai within a 3-year period. Aid 1,000 communities with 4,000 baht/rai/year.

Defence: Help people deal with climate change

Adapt - withstand

Go over management plans.

Manage the water of every river basin.

Adaptation fund to deal with disasters - floods.

Prepare

Weather warnings are accurate and cover all areas.

Local governments can declare disaster areas.

Shelters - refugee centres are up to standards.

Compensate - remedy

Compensate - remedy floods fairly and immediately.

Free crop insurance for every area flooded.

Move Forward Party | Sustainable Environment

Clear air

Fix coastal erosion

Speed up legislation to solve the problem

Support the Clean Air Act.

Enact the ‘Cross-Border Smog Law’.

Support white - green measures

Specify receding areas, use soft structures.

Support budgets through LGOs and the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources.

Ban the import of agricultural products that came from burning in neighbouring countries

People can sue the companies.

Every breakwater must go through an EIA

Assess environmental impacts if grey measures (e.g. breakwaters) are required to fix coastal erosion problems.

Progress towards offensive dust diplomacy

Negotiate and build commercial and investment cooperations. Give financial aid to foreign countries to achieve change in the way of agricultural production.

Fix wild elephants problem

Increase the standard target for Thai air quality

Set the standard value for PM2.5 to be in line with international standards.

Look out for wild elephants

Set up a wild elephant protection volunteer team, establish a wild elephant protection command centre, develop technology for tracking and monitoring elephants.

Increase the efficiency of dust measurement - notification - investigation

Increase measurement stations - warning systems - budget for procurement of dust measurement technologies.

Increase the power and number of pollution control officers in factory inspection.

Arrange an area for wild elephants only

Make a permanent living area for wild elephants, lure elephants to return to the forest - elephant-only habitats and test elephant barriers - gutters.

Zero waste

Reduce human - government activities

Reduce travelling in wild elephant habitations

Move human activities that aren’t necessarily need to be done in forests out, find ways to reduce traffic on roads that go through forests.

Reduce plastic waste

Ban foams and single-use plastic straws - cups - bags.

Collect plastic bag tax to (be used as) the environment fund.

Pilot safari-style tourism

Develop safari-style tourism activities in wild elephant areas.

Control industrial waste

Increase local governments’ power to be able to temporarily shut down factories (wash away the NCPO’s orders).

Complete care for dogs - cats

Stop the import of trash from foreign countries

No importing plastic, electronic, and other wastes that can be gathered domestically.

Take care of homeless dogs and cats

Homeless dogs and cats shelters are up to standard.

Free animal health insurance for adopting homeless dogs and cats.

Enact the waste management statute

Build a central mechanism to regulate waste management standards for every locality nationwide.

Vaccinate - neuter both domestic and homeless dogs and cats

Increase the local governments’ budget to be enough for operation.

Establish an animal welfare agency, have a city veterinarian.

Reduce light pollution

Dog - cat ID card

Develop a registration system for household and community dogs and cats to check and record their population.

Protect the animals’ welfare against danger.

Set a standard for putting up billboards

Set a standard value for putting up billboards (on-off time, light emission).

Establish a light pollution control agency.

Assess environmental impacts

Promote “darkness conservation areas”

E.g., astronomical tourist areas, firefly viewing areas.

Promote strategic environmental assessment (SEA)

In areas with projects continuously popping up, areas that are ecologically and culturally fragile, areas that are important in environmental conservation.

Move Forward Party | Foreign Affairs With a Spine

Foreign affairs for “good politics”

Foreign affairs for “good life”

Thailand takes the role of ASEAN’s democracy leader

Aim to put an end to civil wars and death of citizens (e.g. Myanmar).

Treat political refugees with respect to human dignity.

Revise each other’s principles on “no interference with internal affairs” to protect the liberty and rights of the people in member states.

Offensive agricultural diplomacy

Speed up the finding of new NPK sources in new countries at a competitive price.

Open up the agricultural product market, reduce trade barriers.

ASEAN Court of Human Rights

Push for every (member) country to comply with the agreements regarding human rights.

Support joint world heritage registrations

Support the joint application for world heritage registrations in areas adjacent to or near international borders to build cooperation with neighbouring countries.

Sign and ratify international laws regarding human rights

Move to make changes in the country’s laws to follow international standards.

Ratify the Rome Statute to recognise the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Establish the Thailand Trade Representative Office (TTRO) directly under the PM

Responsible for trade negotiations with countries that aren’t already negotiating partners, negotiating partners that don’t have a full statehood status, and negotiating partners that have other special statuses.

Protect peace and democratic values under the war between superpowers

Build cooperation with China for a peaceful and wealthy Asia without excluding the democratic values of Thailand.

Increase visa-free (countries) for Thai passports

Aim to negotiate for visa exemption with at least 40 more countries (from 40+ countries today) by improving international indicators.

Foreign affairs for “bright future”

Offensive vaccine diplomacy

Quickly vaccinate people living on both sides of the borders (e.g. a new strain of COVID or other vaccines).

Exchange program for teachers to improve language skills

Make the Thailand Exchange and Teaching (TET) Program, recruit foreign volunteers who have a bachelor’s degree to become teaching assistants to teach English, Chinese, or other languages in schools that lack personnels.

Offensive dust diplomacy

Enact the ‘Cross-Border Smog Law’, impose a penalty on Thai and foreign companies that contribute to air pollution.

Negotiate and build cooperation to make changes in agricultural production methods.

Thailand as a centre for ASEAN in reducing greenhouse gases

Build a green economy, issue a law to open a mandatory carbon market, collect taxes from conglomerates that couldn’t reduce emission of (greenhouse) gases.