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Pol Lt-General Surachate Hakparn suffered a tumultuous 2024, as Thailand’s highest-profile policeman was ousted from the force in a humbling and very public fall from grace.
Scores of protesters gathered in front of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) headquarters today, calling for a speedy investigation into allegations that a group of senior government officials allowed Thaksin Shinawatra to stay in a hospital instead of a prison cell.
The Constitutional Court has unanimously decided to dismiss a complaint filed against Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong, the director-general of Corrections Department and the commandant of Bangkok Remand Prison, accusing them of helping former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to spend six months in the Police General Hospital, instead of in prison, for medical treatment of dubious medical conditions.
The ruling Pheu Thai party instructed its MPs not to take leave today, to attend the House meeting and top vote in support of a one-tier referendum to amend the Constitution.
Although most observers expected the opposition-leading Move Forward Party to be dissolved, the court decision in August this year still came as a shock to many.
Conservatives scored a possibly temporary win today when the Senate voted 153:24 in support of a two-tier referendum to amend the Constitution, despite the likelihood that the House of Representatives will reject a two-tier in favour of a single referendum.
Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has agreed to consider a complaint filed against the director-general of the Corrections Department, the chief doctor at the Police General Hospital and ten other officials for helping former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to stay in the hospital for six months, instead of in prison, despite not suffering any life-threatening conditions.
Former deputy police commissioner, Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, lost an appeal to return to the police service when the Supreme Administrative Court rejected his petition for the court to order a stay of the dismissal order.
Kuala Lumpur - - Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday appointed Thailand's billionaire political heavyweight and former premier Thaksin Shinawatra as his personal adviser for when he becomes chair of Southeast Asia's regional bloc next year.
Senators have warned Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra that she may face a censure debate if she continues to miss Senate meetings, allegedly to avoid responding to senators’ interpellations.
The Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) separatist group in Thailand’s southernmost provinces is urging the government of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to accelerate the establishment of a peace dialogue team, to continue the peace talks between the two sides which have been on hold for a long time.
Two of the governing coalition parties have tried to distance themselves from accusations of disloyalty from Pheu Thai’s de facto leader Thaksin Shinawatra, insisting that he was not referring to them.
