Democracy in Thailand

Thailand has dramatically changed its governing system since the year of 1932. The introdution of democratic system was brought about instead of the successive absolute monarchy which had governed for decades. The group of young intellectual people who were educated from western countries and under influence of democracy staged a demand of changing from absolute to constitutional monarchy to the King,Prajadhipok (Rama VII) on June,24 1932. Even though there is no readiness among citizens and also the country, the King, with foresight, granted the first constitution on December, 10 in the same year that ended the previous 700 years of absolute monarchy. Afterwards, a series of constitutions have developed and evolved, leading to Thailand's modern constitutional monarchy up until now.