New PM asks for public’s understanding
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has sought understanding from the public by asking them to allow her and her Cabinet time to work before making any judgments.
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Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has sought understanding from the public by asking them to allow her and her Cabinet time to work before making any judgments.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will lead her 35 newly-appointed ministers to swear an oath before His Majesty the King in the Amphorn Sathan Residential Hall at 5pm on Friday.
The new cabinet under PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra was announced in the Royal Gazette yesterday.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said today that she is ready to approve the Cabinet list, after which the secretary general of the Cabinet, Dr. Prommin Lertsuradej, will submit it to His Majesty the King for royal assent.
Chada Thaised, the prospective deputy interior minister of the Bhumjaithai party, has decided to withdraw his name from the Cabinet list and has proposed that his daughter Sabeeda takes his place.
Former prime minister and Democrat party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva says he is prepared to return to the party, if it returns to its previous political ideology, but restoring its popularity and image will not be as easy.
Most Thai respondents to a recent NIDA opinion poll agree with former prime minister Thaksin’s idea of state benefits being paid in cash to disabled and vulnerable people under the “digital wallet” scheme and the idea of effectively nationalising some electric train concessions, so train fares can be reduced.
The Democrat Party has formally decided to join a new coalition government being formed by Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra despite opposition from many of its senior members.
Sereepisuth Temeeyaves, leader of the Thai Liberal Party, severed ties with former PM Thaksin Shinawatra today and withdrew from the Pheu Thai-led coalition government.
The Palang Pracharath party has renewed its effort to convince the Pheu Thai party to include it in the governing coalition, stating that Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra could be accused of lacking “evident integrity” by not keeping her promise to retain its party in the coalition.
The Democrat party has already received an official invitation letter from the ruling Pheu Thai party to join its coalition, in place of the divided Palang Pracharath party.
The executive committee of the ruling Pheu Thai party decided today to exclude the divided Palang Pracharath party from the governing coalition and may invite a new party or even the Palang Pracharath party’s rebel faction, led by Thammanat Prompao, to join, according to Pheu Thai Secretary-General Sorawong Thienthong this evening.