Thai PM leaves cardboard cutout to answer questions
PM Prayuth Chan-ocha leaves a cardboard cutout at a news conference in Bangkok (9 Jan 2017)
Thailand's prime minister has taken a novel approach to avoiding questions at a news conference, by leaving a cardboard cutout to do the job.
Prayuth Chan-ocha briefly spoke to an audience outside Government House in Bangkok, before the life-sized replica was brought out.
"If you want to ask any questions on politics or conflict, ask this guy," Mr Prayuth said, then walked away waving.
Mr Prayuth led a military coup in 2014 and was named PM later that year.
The government has promised to hold nationwide elections, but they have been repeatedly been pushed back.
In April the country voted in a referendum on a new constitution and a changed electoral system, which observers say is likely to lead to a more splintered parliament.
Shaking hands with cardboard
The prime minister was speaking to Thai families and reporters on Monday ahead of Children's Day on Saturday.
The BBC's Thai service says the cutout is likely one that will be on show on the day, when children will be given access to the official residence and the prime minister's office.
Reporters may have hoped to ask him questions about issues including the elections, about rumbling violence in the south, or the severe lese majeste laws under which numerous people have been jailed for insulting the monarchy.
But instead those in the audience were left only with the option of taking pictures with the cutout of Mr Prayuth in a handshake pose.
The Thai government has repeatedly arrested young people protesting against its leadership
The prime minister did, however, speak to a hand-picked audience of children inside the residence, The Nation newspaper reported.
He said it was important to "engage young people with potential to get in line with 21st-Century democracy".
He also said Thailand "shouldn't be afraid of politics" and needed to "create a new generation of politicians".
Many students who have protested against Thailand's military leadership have been arrested or jailed in the past few years.
Prayuth "Let a cardboard me answer the questions, LOL, seeya"
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Prayuth "Let a cardboard me answer the questions, LOL, seeya"
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Turns out the cardboard cutout's answers to questions were more intelligible than Prayuth's.
"The final straw actually involved my mortal enemy vladimir, who you may or may not know is an insufferable, overposting asshat."
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It's great to see the honesty there. I hope this catches on. Maybe in the near future we'll have loads of world leaders joining this bandwagon and referring questions to dummies.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Surely there must be scope for a "Prayuth Draws" like our other buffoon friend?
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
Does Trump have to get brought up in every fucking thread?
"The final straw actually involved my mortal enemy vladimir, who you may or may not know is an insufferable, overposting asshat."
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*everyEdwardo wrote:Does Trump have to get brought up in every fucking thread?
Meaning the one thread specifically about him plus a couple of other random mentions.
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