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Third, to promote decentralization. Subsequently, the Decentralization Act has

clearly stated that the government budget must be car-marked for local government,
increasing from less than 5 percent in 1997 to be at least 35 percent in 2006.

Fourth, to empower people. Fifty thousand citizens can be organized for submitting
a bill or a proposal to remove Prime Minister, Minister, member of the House of

Representatives, senator, President of Supreme Court of Justice, President of Constitutional
Court, President of the Supreme Administrative Court or Prosecutor General and some
other high authorities from the office.

These changes might not be so interesting for the developed countries. But for the
developing countries like Thailand, to push the Members of Parliament to markedly
decrease their power is extremely difficult.

It is interesting that a man who is the key person for this success is a physician,
Professor Doctor Prawase Wasi. Dr. Wasi is my teacher, he is about seventy years old now
but still very active and energetic. He came from a very poor fhl~ily. When lie was young

he suffered from malnutrition, but he can struggle until finM the medical school with gold
medal. He had received the King's Scholarship to continue education in the US and M and
became a leading hematologist in Siriraj Medical School which is the first medical school
in Thailand. His performance is exemplary in all the three areas of a faculty staff, i.e.,
a good physician, a good teacher and a good researcher. He published a lot of papers and

text books. In the last four decades he involved in social movement a nd became
an important social Ieader. He got the Magsaysay Award i n 1981. After a political crisis in
1993, he accepted to chair the Committee for Democracy Development appointed by the

Speaker o f the House of Representatives. The proposal from this Committee in connection
with systematic social movement, led to successful Constitutional Reform in 1997.

With his rich of experience, Dr. Wasi had proposed a theory of social movement
called, "A triangle that moves mountain".

The basic concepts of this theory is that to solve any difficult social problems is
similar to moving a mountain. There are three main strategies need to be done.