By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra might probably be judged by court to be “evidently dishonest and unethical” since she has failed to keep her promises pertaining to the setup of a sustained Pheu Thai-led government, said deputy Palang Pracharath leader Paiboon Nititawan today (Aug 29).
Paiboon said a fresh impeachment lawsuit might probably be lodged sooner or later against the woman prime minister, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, on grounds of evident dishonesty and unethicality and cited an historic event in which former prime minister Srettha Thavisin was ruled guilty by the Constitutional Court of being severely unethical after he had named a former lawyer-turned-convict a portfolioless minister, among others, in a previous cabinet lineup, rendering an immediate end to his prime-ministerial status earlier this month.
Paetongtarn might probably encounter similar impeachment charges as her predecessor did since she had verbally promised to keep the Palang Pracharath in coalition under the sustained leadership of her largest ruling party but she eventually failed to keep her word, according to the deputy Palang Pracharath leader.
Paiboon said Paetongtarn had secured votes of support for prime minister from 39 Palang Pracharath MPs, among other coalition lawmakers, but finally failed to keep the previously third largest coalition partner in the Pheu Thai-led coalition, thus evidently signifying the failure on her part as head of government to keep her promises.
Such questionable conduct of Paetongtarn could probably be considered by court as tantamount to being evidently dishonest and unethical and possibly cost her the elected premiership as had been the case of Srettha, according to the deputy Palang Pracharath leader.
Paiboon was responding to the recent phenomenon in which the Palang Pracharath headed by former deputy prime minister Prawit Wongsuwan has been dumped out of the Pheu Thai-led government whilst a clique of renegade Palang Pracharath MPs headed by Palang Pracharath secretary-general Thammanat Prompao will practically remain as part of it.
The billionaire power player Thaksin had earlier locked horns with Prawit whom he had suspected of allegedly orchestrating an impeachment lawsuit against the court-deposed prime minister.
In the meantime, a lawsuit has already been filed to the Election Commission in pursuit of dissolution of the Pheu Thai on grounds of the largest ruling party being illegally, clandestinely dominated and steered by Thaksin.
The prime minister’s father had hosted an urgent meeting of leading figures of all Pheu Thai-led coalition partners at his Chan Song Lah residence on Aug. 14 after Srettha had been stripped by court of his elected premiership hours earlier.
Due to his having been previously convicted by court to a jail sentence on power-abusing and misconduct charges, Thaksin is not only prohibited by law from registering himself for membership of any party but legally banned by all means from taking command of one, regardless of the fact that the billionaire power player is unquestionably known to members of the public as de facto Pheu Thai boss.
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Top and Front Page: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan. Photo: MNG Online
Insert: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, right, and Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan. Both photos: Thai Rath
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