Political Risk Management, New Constitution, National Strategy and the Populist Policy Contract of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)

Abstract

The prolonged political protest crisis since 2005-2014 had been strongly impacted to the government, which made the country management in troubles and unstable. For this reason, there were the coup d’état two times by soldiers, and they used the conflict of the politics to seize the power from the elected civilian government. Later on, the army of soldiers started to rise the power in 2014, and also tried to build the condition under   the new constitution in order to continue inheriting their power easily. This academic article objective is to study the political risk management and the inheritance of power plan by using the democratic methods of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) in 2014-2019. The analyzing of the data obtained from the reference sources to make the academic article conclusion. It was found that the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has the effective risk management process and built the strong tool through the conditional mechanism of the new constitution in order to benefit the succession of the military government in a concrete way. For example, the Civil State project that looks like the symbol of the populism policy which is using to benefit the specific groups of people in society, and suitable linked to the national strategy in the Constitution. Moreover, this affects the implementation of various policies, which significantly mix with the Civil State project. Therefore, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has already laid out a mechanism for action in advance and be able to easily carry on their policies after the 2019 elections. The results showed that The "Palang Pracharath Party", a nominee political party had gathered the majority of the votes in the House of Commons so they were able to form the coalition government. This allowed them to enable the government of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to successfully inherit the political power under the constitutional legitimacy through the complete democratic elections process. Finally, this causes the implementation of the policies of the new government and there is no need to create any policy because they can continue carrying on the original civil state project that was previously carried out in the era of the government of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).