17-03-2025, 02:05 PM
HHP's Rattanakosin: 'Illegal, Treacherous' NERI Will Sell the Future to International Financiers
Udon Nakhon Post
22 June 5627
The government's announcement of the National Economic Renewal Initiative (NERI) two days past was received with shock at the Udon Nahkon headquarters of the Hanzen Heritage Party, where chairman Wichai Rattanakosin has already been hard at work for years organizing the 30 member caucus of South Dovani's far-right national populist movement. Rattanakosin, ever the firebrand, was apopleptic:
"More of the same from the weak-livered 'center left'. A century of revolutionary repression and the medicine ordered by our 'saviors' is to sell off the assets of the people of Hanzen to the highest bidder."
Rattanakosin and the HHP, formally in opposition though with the support of several numerous major countryside patrons and ascendant politically since the collapse of the Revolutionary Alliance government, have been outspoken critics of the liberalization efforts of the NEWP-PIE government. This criticism has sometimes brought the HHP party line into uneasy alignment with the RA and Progessive People's Union, whose National Assembly speakers also quickly condemned the NERI as a "sell off of South Dovani's soul".
The NERI, in particular, says Rattanakosin, is an "illegal, treacherous fire sale to international finance at the expense of the people of Hanzen". Government promises to share the profits with the people through the National Pension Scheme will be "subject to the same utter corruption that NPS is already subject to today, and the people of Hanzen will once again be forced to rely upon the only true good in the world, each other for survival".
The government did not immediately respond to request for comment.
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