Thailand?s policies toward Burma will change if the planned election installs a new regime with a seemingly democratic face. When the Burmese government allowed foreign envoys to meet with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in May 2009, she reportedly whispered into the ear of the Thai envoy, ?I would like to thank Thailand for its support for my fight for democracy in Burma. I will visit Thailand one day to show my appreciation.? The return of the Democrat Party to power in Thailand should have lifted Suu Kyi?s spirits because it was under Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai?s Democrat Party-led government (1997-2001) that relations between Thailand and Burma?s became strained as Thailand expressed the right to voice concerns over the political situation in Burma under its ?flexible engagement policy.?