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En Thaïlande, les apparences d’un putsch consensuel, [Editorial: Appearance of a consensual putsch in Thailand] (S. Boisseau du Rocher)
Le Figaro – Opinions, 22 Sept. 2006
The coup d’état that shook Thailand is yet another phase in the political crisis that has destabilised the country for several years. Comfortably re-elected in 2005, but not without their being protest against the result, Thaksin Shinawatra, the powerful telecommunications magnate turned politician in the late 1990s then Prime Minister in 2001, applied the same rule in politics as in business: the rule of the strongest. How was the Thai army able to mount a coup d’état in a country that appeared converted to democracy and to the parliamentary process? Beginning with this, S. Boisseau du Rocher interpreted the polemic about this crisis in the press.