The decision to broadcast the House committee's scrutiny of the 2027 budget has quietly become one of the most important democratic reforms in recent years. For the first time, the public can witness how nearly 3.8 trillion baht of taxpayers' money would be spent.
Budget committee meetings, once regarded as dry technical proceedings, now attract widespread public attention. Citizens have followed discussions, debated government priorities and questioned spending proposals that would previously have received little scrutiny. That is how representative democracy should function.
