Surayud military-interim government post-September 2006 coup

Doctrine — stated goals and content

Post-coup royalist-technocratic stabilisation doctrine — interim cabinet appointed by the Council for National Security (CNS) after the 19 September 2006 coup that ousted Thaksin Shinawatra while he was at the UN General Assembly. Programme combined three vectors: (1) undo selected Thaksin-era commercialism — withdrawal of the Shin Corp / Temasek capital-gains tax exemption, reversal of some SOE privatisations, halting of Thaksin's mega-projects pending review; (2) institutional restructuring — sufficiency-economy philosophy (เศรษฐกิจพอเพียง, the late King Bhumibol's framework) elevated as official planning doctrine in the 10th National Economic and Social Development Plan, 2007 Constitution (approved by referendum 19 August 2007) introducing stronger independent-body constraints on elected politicians; (3) a controversial 19 December 2006 capital-controls episode (30% unremunerated reserve requirement on short-term inflows) that crashed the SET by 15% in one day before being partially reversed next day. Counter-insurgency deepening in the Muslim-majority South. Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party dissolved May 2007 by Constitutional Tribunal; 111 executives banned 5 years. December 2007 election won by PPP (Thaksin proxy); transition to Samak government January 2008. Coherence line: royalist-technocratic reset plus sufficiency-economy doctrine, market-economy partially preserved but capital-controls misstep signalled governance instability.