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Change Thailand for the Better
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Change Thailand to Not Be the Same
Good Politics | Good Life | Bright Future |
A whole new constitution
| Return 10M rai* of land to the people
* 10M rai ≈ 40K km² or 4M acres | Electric buses for every province, drinkable tap water
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Abolish compulsory military service
| Yearly (minimum) wage increase
| Make jobs, fix the country
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Police on the side of the people
| Receipt lottery, helping SMEs
| Revolutionise education
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Transparent state without fraud
| Welfare to decrease inequality
| Healthy both physically - mentally
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Governor election for every province
| Reduce electricity charge immediately 70 satang/unit
| Be serious with global warming
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Make an entirely new constitution
Referendum within 100 days
| Elect a Constitution Drafting Assembly
| The People’s Constitution
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Reform the military & security missions
Separate soldiers from politics
| Transparent military with accountability
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Modern military, up-to-date with the world
| Privates are safe - secure - have a bright future
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Make peace in every area
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Protect the liberty and rights of the people
Protect the freedom of expression
| Make a fair judicial process
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Transparent court with accountability
| Return justice to the people
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Move Forward Party | Provinces Manage Themselves
Elect provincial administrators | Local governments provide public services |
Gubernatorial elections for every province
| Local governments can provide any public services except military - court - currency - foreign affairs
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Referendum to abolish provincial governments, nobody unemployed - disadvantaged
| Transfer power to the local governments
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Government officers under every affiliation have equal dignity and rights, can relocate progressively
| Abolish the regulations and orders of the NCPO that restrict - interfere with local governments
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District governor elections for every district of Bangkok
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Increase provincial self-management budget | Transparent local government with accountability |
Increase self-management budget for every local government nationwide
| Disclose every baht of budget information - every step of procurement
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Local governments have new ways to make money, e.g., loaning money - issuing bonds
| Citizen council meetings, every locality, every quarter
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Adjust formula, fairly distribute budget, decrease inequality between areas
| People can petition online, suggest projects - legislations, remove local governments
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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
| Every of the government’s public services can be done on your phone
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Fraud-detection AI technology
| Welfare money transferred automatically, no waiting, no registration
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“Splintered Fraudsters” project
| No silence once reported, update on every step
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“Expose Fraud, (Ensured) Safety, Get Money” project
| Abolish 50% of licences, abolish all laws that are obstacles
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No using government funds to promote yourself
| Get licence results within 15 days
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NACC on the side of the people
| Overhaul public service assessment, “happy people, good officers”
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Quickly adjustable budget, organised from zero every year
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Move Forward Party | Police Protect Public Peace
Police motivated, work honestly | Police aware of human rights |
Fair progress - relocation, no “(elephant) tickets” - nepotism
| Give hair back to the police officers, no mandatory crew cut
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Police officers of every gender can become a commissioner general
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Police on the side of the people | Police work effectively/efficiently |
Commissioner General on the side of the people
| Reduce inquiry officials’ burden, share their work with police in other lines of work
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Province - police serve the people together
| Female officers in every police station
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Police inspector, people have ways to report police
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Move Forward Party | Complete Welfare
Children
| All Ages 350,000 start-off houses, the government helps to pay by instalments - rent. |
The Youth
| 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
| Free 1 GB per month internet data top-up. Lifetime learning platform, unlimited free learning with job placement system. |
Seniors
| 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: (Not Translated (yet?)) |
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
Turn ALRO land into land titles fairly
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
Debt-relieving trees
Debt-relieving roofs
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 |
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Innovation | Promote processing, increase the value of agricultural goods |
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Expansion | Find new income sources for progressive Thai farmers |
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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. 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
| Safe schools — no authoritarianism
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Raise the quality, create globally up-to-date people
| Give teachers back to the students, give value back to the teaching profession
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Support lifelong learning
| Decentralise power in education
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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
| Sustainable agriculture
Build a corncob processing industry instead of burning.
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Earth-friendly transportation
| No wasted food waste
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 cap on industrial emissions of greenhouse gases. Open the market for selling and trading quotas.
Force all factories to disclose information on dangerous chemicals and greenhouse gas emission. | Green spaces with green jobs
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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. |