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Poll litmus test
Bangkok Post
|February 02, 2026
Re: "Learning crisis", (PostBag, 30) & "Future will be decided in classrooms", (BP, Jan 26).
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Burin Kantabutra makes a timely suggestion for voters ahead of the Feb 8 election. What could usefully be added is that there is, in fact, a clear and simple litmus test.
Which parties support knowledge over legally enforced ignorance? Which value truth-seeking and truth-speaking over the legal suppression of facts?
Which respect the right of people to determine, through open discussion, the form and substance of the laws that govern their own nation - and which would continue to deny citizens that most basic democratic right?
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