Thailand goes to the polls on December the 23rd to elect a new government. It is hoped that this time the military’s generals will not intervene as they have 18 times in recent history by staging coups against a sitting government. But what, if anything, has the military achieved in Thailand over the past year that made them think they could do better than Thaksin Shinawatra’s deposed Thai Rak Thai party?

Talent: Pichai Chuensuksawadi, editor-in-chief of the Bangkok Post; Giles Ji Ungpakorn, political science at Chulalongkorn University and author of A Coup for the Rich

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