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budget must be returned or reduced. There should also be the punitive legal measures

imposing a fine for the political parties and/or party administrators. In addition, there should
be other measures and mechanisms encouraging the people to examine the budget

spending by these political parties.

(4) The State should promote the legal measures and mechanisms which arouse
the general people to recognize the importance of brainstorming and presenting the policies

in the public forum independently, either at the local or national level. To elaborate, at the

local level, when a local administrative organization launches any local development
project, the project implementation must be presented to the people in that local area

while these local people must be allowed to access to any facts relating to that project so

that they can make an analysis based on those facts before criticizing and proposing
anything relating to it appropriately. Each local administrative organization must not keep

the people out. At the national level, if any project of the State may give the broad impact,

e.g. power plant construction project, construction of the suburb rail transit system, dam
construction project, etc., the State should encourage the people affected by these projects,

who may be the people all over the country, to access to all facts relating to these projects,

which will result to the appropriate criticism. The implementation of these measures will be
accepted by the public and these projects will be sustainable because the general people

will feel that they own these projects through their participation in sharing opinions.

Meanwhile, regarding the recognition of citizenship, the general people will be aware that
they have the civic duties in examining projects undertaken by the State while the State

must respect the people’s rights of citizenship. For mechanisms to promote the people’s

participation in the State’s projects, they have been imposed in several laws such as
Evaluation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in accordance with the Promotion and

Conservation of National Environmental Quality Act B.E. 2535 (A.D. 1992), etc. However, most

importantly, the law enforcement must be more intense.