TUTZING, KOMPAS.com – Activist Thailand not only staged protests in Bangkok, but also residences Raja Maha Vajiralongkorn of German.
The protest action of activists in Thailand in Germany is to put up a placard with the words “state owned by the people” in front of via Raja Maha on Friday (25/9/2020).
On Sunday (20/9/2020), a similar plaque was also installed in the field next to the Royal Palace in Bangkok. However, the plaque was removed the day after it was installed.
Reporting from Channel News Asia, amid heavy rain, event organizer Junya Limprasert from Act4Dem read a letter to the king.
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He called for more democracy and said the Thai people didn’t want a king who spends most of his time in Germany.
“We want the king to hand over the throne, we want the king to stop harassing the Thai people,” shouted Junya outside King Maha’s villa in Tutzing, Germany.
Embassy of Thailand at Berlin could not be reached for comment.
Meanwhile, the Palace Government of Thailand did not comment and gave no response to the rallies in Thailand.
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The protesters began to dare to challenge monarchy Thailand, violating the long-standing taboo, by demanding reform monarchy since August.
Calls for monarchy reform were increasingly echoed by rallies attended by tens of thousands of Thais last weekend in Bangkok.
Thailand’s social media scene is no less crowded. The hashtag (hashtag) #RepublicofThailand trended in Thailand on Friday after parliament delayed responding to protesters’ requests for constitutional changes.
The symbolic plaque mounted on the flower pot in front of the King Maha villa resembles one of the placards installed near the Royal Palace in Bangkok last weekend.
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King Maha has been on the throne since 2016 but spends most of his time in Germany, where his 15-year-old son attends school.
The king’s lifestyle has long been a nourishment for German tabloids, even when he was still the Crown Prince.
Meanwhile in Thailand, Raja Maha’s glamorous life in Germany is not featured in the country’s mainstream media.
The reason, in the State of “White Elephants” law read majesty prescribing imprisonment for up to 15 years for anyone who insults the monarchy.
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Thai protesters complain about the expense and lifestyle of their European king as well as his absence from the kingdom.
Protesters in Thailand are trying to reduce the monarch’s powers under the constitution and also to remove direct control of the kingdom’s fortunes worth tens of billions of US dollars and several army units.
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