By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin said today (Jan.11) he unfalteringly intends to run the country throughout a four-year term of the executive branch rather than be possibly replaced by Pheu Thai leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
The Pheu Thai-backed prime minister said he will definitely not opt out either by resigning or dissolving the House of Representatives to call a general election since, he said, he has originally resolved to run the country throughout his four-year tenure as provided by law so, he said, welfare benefits of the people nationwide will definitely be better under his rule.
Srettha was apparently downplaying speculation that Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra, would probably take his place well ahead of the end of his elected premiership scheduled for 2027.
The former real estate tycoon was allegedly promoted to rise to power in hush-hush fashion by Thaksin’s sister/deposed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Paetongtarn has recently said the time for her to assume a ministerial seat of cabinet under Srettha has not yet come, let alone to replace him as head of the Pheu Thai-led government anytime soon.
Thaksin who has allegedly managed to keep himself a free man despite his court-sentenced, one-year jail term would most certainly prefer his youngest daughter rise to power in place of his sister’s former personal associate.
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Top and Front Page: Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. Both photos: Thai Rath
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