The military-appointed constitution drafting committee that was set up after the coup in 2014 surely knew what it was doing. It crafted a charter in 2017 that now acts as a straitjacket on Thailand's democratic outcome from the general election last Sunday.
The fundamental problem in the wake of the election is that the incumbent power holders have embedded constitutional rules to prevent the Thai people from having the final say on how their country should be governed. This incongruence between what the majority of the electorate wants and what the power wielders behind the scenes will not allow is likely to lead to severe political headwinds in the coming weeks.
