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The Supreme Court has ordered the revocation of voting and candidacy rights for ten years for Senator Wichien Chaisathaporn, ruling that he provided false information during his bid for the Senate.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today that his government is uncomfortable with allowing Italian-Thai Development Plc (ITD) to continue implementing the Thai-Chinese high-speed rail project or the Rama II–Samut Sakhon elevated expressway after two fatal crane accidents within 24 hours.
People’s Party leader Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut announced today that the party will not protect one of its election candidates, Ratchapong Soisuwan, who was running in Constituency 2 in Tak province, after he was arrested by cybercrime suppression officers for alleged involvement in online gambling operations.
As other election contenders campaign against corruption and “grey money” in Thai politics, the fledgling Economic Party has gone a step further by vowing to introduce the death penalty for bribery.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has chosen to ignore the remark by Cambodian senior minister for human rights affairs, Keo Remy, who urged Thais to vote for Pheu Thai or the People’s party “for the sake of peace between Thailand and Cambodia.
The People’s party is ahead of all other parties in terms of the popularity of its party leader, Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, as is its chance of winning the most constituency and party-list seats in the House, according to the latest opinion poll, conducted by the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), the results of which were released yesterday.
Buoyed by recent opinion polls, which indicated that Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, of the People’s party, is the most favoured candidate for Thailand’s next prime minister, his party unveiled its four potential deputy prime ministers today.
On Children’s Day yesterday, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s children and grandchildren visited him in Klong Prem Central Prison, where he is serving out his sentence on corruption convictions.
Natthaphong Ruangpanyawaut, the People’s Party’s prime ministerial candidate, campaigned for support for his party and its candidates during an election rally in Bangkok, saying that votes in this election would truly matter.
Dismissed former deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn lost his bid to return to the police service today, after the Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the order for his dismissal was legitimate.
While campaigning for his party’s candidate today, Democrat party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva asked a group of young students, at a school in Nonthaburi province, whether they knew who he was.
A former Thai ambassador to the United States, now a senior member of the People’s party, has addressed accusations that he once supported and defended the military junta in a statement published in a US newspaper, claiming that the statement was not his personal opinion.
