THE ASEAN GALLERY: Guess who declared a revolutionary government in 2014, and who is feared to be planning to declare one?
The NCPO issued an interim constitution that gave it sweeping legislative and executive powers. The “national legislature” it set up and dominated by military men elected the junta’s leader Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha, commander of the Thai armed forces, as the country’s prime minister. Since it was directed against Thailand’s most powerful oligarch, Thaksin Shinawatra, the revolutionary government has been implicitly an anti-oligarchic one.