By Thai Newsroom Reporters
KRISADA CHINAVICHARANA of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart has today (May 8) stepped down as deputy finance minister with immediate effect, partisan sources said.
Krisada has tendered his letter of resignation as deputy finance minister to Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira but it remains to be seen whether another person might probably be named in near future as replacement for Krisada who had been earlier in charge of six agencies under care of the Ministry of Finance.
Following last month’s new cabinet lineup, Krisada has been left in charge of only one of those agencies, namely the Public Debt Management Office, and that could have probably dissatisfied him and prompted him to call it quits, the partisan sources said.
The Ruam Thai Sang Chart-attached Krisada’s resignation from the Pheu Thai-led government has followed that of the Pheu Thai-attached Parnpree Bahiddhanukara as foreign minister the day after the new cabinet lineup had been available to the public.
Given Krisada’s departure, the Pheu Thai-attached Pichai is currently having two others to assist him in the running of the government’s treasury and financial affairs, namely Deputy Finance Minister Julapun Amornvivat and Deputy Finance Minister Paopoom Rojanasakul, both attached to the Pheu Thai, the core of the coalition government.
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin had earlier assumed the finance portfolio in concurrent fashion until last month’s new cabinet lineup in which he had passed it onto Pichai, former chair of the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Meanwhile, former deputy prime minister-cum-energy minister Supattanapong Punmeechao has resigned as Ruam Thai Sang Chart partisan member and chair of the ultra-conservative party’s strategic affairs with immediate effect.
The Ruam Thai Sang Chart under de facto party boss/former coup leader-turned-prime minister/now privy councillor Prayut Chan-o-cha are the fourth largest coalition partner.
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Krisada Chinavicharana. Top photo: Naewna, Front Page photo: Thai Rath
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