By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE PALANG PRACHARATH today (June 18) downplayed hearsay that the third largest coalition partner would probably be booted out of the Pheu Thai-led government at the alleged, capricious whims of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra.
Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Natural Resources & Environment Minister Patcharawat Wongsuwan categorically denied he had got wind of such a looming probability which would otherwise send the Palang Pracharath, led by his brother Prawit Wongsuwan, packing sooner or later.
Palang Pracharath Secretary-General/Agriculture & Cooperatives Minister Thammanat Prompao denied a hush-hush move has occurred with intent to expel the 40 MPs-strong Palang Pracharath from the Pheu Thai-led coalition government to which a total of 314 MPs are currently attached.
Nevertheless, the probability of the Palang Pracharath being reshuffled out of the current coalition has emerged since the powerful de facto Pheu Thai boss publicly accused “the man from a forest home” of standing behind a surprise impeachment bid launched by 40 senators many of whom being personally loyal to him against the Pheu Thai-attached Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin.
“The man from a forest home” whom the disgruntled Thaksin has earlier mentioned without naming him apparently refers to the Palang Pracharath leader who concurrently chairs the Five Provinces Bordering Forest Preservation Foundation with an office adjacent to his home in the premises of the First Infantry Regiment on Vibhavadi Rangsit road.
An impeachment lawsuit has been filed in the Constitutional Court after Srettha had named in vain Thaksin’s former lawyer/former convict Pichit Chuenban a minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office.
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Top and Front Page: Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan, left, and de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, right. Both photos: Thai Rath
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