PUBLISHED: 6 Apr 2025 at 14: 20
Previous law authors, medics and economic instructors have voiced strong opposition to the president’s game costs, saying it will ruin the nation and its people.
Fifty original authors of the 2007 law led by Prof Jarun Pakdeethanakul revealed an empty text to the legislature leader and members of the parliament on Sunday.
In the email, they said that the congress may reject the government’s leisure complex act that was put on the legislature’s agenda on Wednesday.
They said that the expenses– which includes the legalisation of casinos– was hardly a battle plan of the decision Pheu Thai Party and its coalition partners, but reflected the vision of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
According to the party, the act contradicts national development based on the validity market which is part of the national techniques and a royal command.
State estate
The act affects the qualities of the condition, the party said, because state-owned property may be turned into pleasure complexes. It is comparable to handing over state property for the private business to grow for its own advantage which is against the rules of condition property development.
The bill may solve the financial problems of the nation and the public, the group claimed, but may favour foreign groups of casino developers at the cost of the nation which may suffer crime and societal problems at all levels.
Twenty-seven doctors who graduated from Chiang Mai University in Class 15 also opposed the entertainment complex bill, saying that Thailand had valuable natural resources and cultures, and casinos would pose long-term problems for new generations.
Tuesday demonstration
Wirangrong Dabbaransi, head of the Network of Universities for Reform, invited opponents of the entertainment complex bill to gather at Chulalongkorn University on Tuesday to voice their opposition to the bill.
A group of economics lecturers at Thammasat University said on Sunday that casinos were actually the highlights of planned entertainment complexes and would cause widespread and long-term social problems, while their contribution to economic development would be short-lived.
Gambling would lead to crime and cause problems for families and children and ruin their future, the group said.
According to the group, entertainment complexes and casinos would allow criminals to launder their money conveniently.
If the government continues to push for the bill, it would not deserve to stay in power, the group said.