School of Vice note: “The King told me, he can be a referee as long as both sides have agreed to ask the King to be the referee and witness,” Daravuth said. Ref. 'King’s role in talks up for debate' PPP. The suggestion that the King can be a 'referee' or act as 'mediator' and or will welcome an invitation by both parties to act that role clearly implies that he's not living up to his supposed constitutional role or responsibilities, especially at moments of crisis, but instead must observe his beg-and-call duties. This means simply that his offered mediating role as referee will not carry any political influence or bear practical substance at all other than one who ceremoniously parrots the political lines of others in this impasse, and then vanish once more into the palace chamber. And whilst this being the case there would be little point in proffering his royal intervention in the first instance.
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