The next election, in 2019 or 2020 or so, will not be your grandfather's election. Or your mother's election or your elder sister's, either. Plans for the next election are more familiar to Cambodia's Hun Sen and survivors of Indonesia's late Suharto than to any Thai voter.
That's assuming the current general prime actually calls an election and courteously grants permission for the most polite political parties below the military ranks to submit applications to speak and hold rallies with "routine surveillance" by military intelligence units, plural.
In four years of absolute control of all government and justice, the regime has brought in 298 new laws. The junta, including the general prime minister who commands it, has signed and declared 500-plus orders, all with the force of law.
