No specific objectives or deadlines, according to MFP deputy president
11 September 2023 at 14:15 PUBLISHED
The Pheu Thai Party-led administration’s policy statement was criticized by Move Forward Party deputy chief Sirikanya Tansakul for being ambiguous and lacking objectives, indicators, and timeframes.
Srettha Thavisin, the prime minister, made his plan announcement on Monday night.
In response, Ms. Sirikanya stated that a good policy statement has outline strategies and procedures for achieving goals as well as an échéance for when these goals can be met.
This policy speech is identical to an earlier report that was released. It does not go into detail. There aren’t any signals; there are only broad terms. The nation would be lost if it were a GPS message, according to Ms. Sirikanya.
She found the policy declaration to be disappointing. With the former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s policy speech, the Pheu Thai Party had fared better.
According to Ms. Sirikanya, the Yingluck administration’s policy statement stated specific objectives, timeframes of one to four years, and election-related plans.
” A good policy speech should first have distinct objectives, quantifiable performance metrics, and distinct timeframes.” Without any measures to demonstrate whether Thailand achieves the goals, it should not be stated what Thailand may become. It shouldn’t just be a desire list, she remarked.
The deputy head of the Move Forward Party claimed that Mr. Srettha’s speech to the legislature did not include timeframes for the implementation of Pheu Thais’ campaign policies.
She questioned whether the government itself had any doubts about its plans or whether they needed to be comprehensive given the large number of coalition parties from various blocs.
According to Ms. Sirikanya, the speech did not contain any measures to address the issues in the regions along the southwestern border. Were the issues in the far South no serious, she questioned?
She likewise urged the government to make sure it had sufficient funds to support its 560 billion ringgit digital currency distribution. According to Ms. Sirikanya, without real money to support the plan, it could lead to inflation in the world of online currency and undermine shop owners’ confidence.
Thai financial problems could not be resolved in a green way without addressing root causes, such as the groups of capitalists who held monopolistic power, she claimed.
She anticipated that the government’s federal funds statement would contain information about its policies.