By Thai Newsroom Reporters
IN WHAT WILL BE SEEN as a rare political phenomenon, Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan plans to take the House floor during censure debate against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra later this month.
That will mark the first time that Prawit, a former deputy prime minister and currently the leader of the second largest opposition party, will literally take part in such a major phenomenon at parliament by joining the People’s-led MPs in addressing the censure debate tentatively scheduled for March 24 against the woman prime minister, slated as the sole target of censure, leaving all other members of her cabinet on the sidelines.
Largely known for his terse, non-committal responses to reporters, bluntly saying ”don’t know, don’t know,” the Palang Pracharath leader is expected to raise certain unresolved issues allegedly pertaining to critical failure of the woman prime minister to run the country during the one-day censure debate, according to Palang Pracharath secretary-general Paiboon Nititawan.
Paetongtarn has been described in the censure motion as being utterly “unqualified, incompetent and unsuitable’” to run the country whilst offering herself to be practically masterminded and steered by her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra.
Those contentious issues will include, among others, Thaksin’s alleged fake-out staged for a six-month period at Police Hospital by feigning to be a “critically ill” patient who had been questionably spared an otherwise one-year jail term at Bangkok Remand prison and instead granted the privilege of staying in a private ward of the hospital until he was released on parole early last year, according to the Palang Pracharath secretary-general.
The People’s-led censure motion against Paetongtarn charges that she has been virtually merely performing as a “puppet” prime minister constantly pulled by the billionaire, power-playing Thaksin.
The former prime minister deposed in the 2006 coup had allegedly reached “a secret deal” with the powers-that-be to the extent that he return from a 17-year, self-exile abroad without literally spending a single day behind bars to otherwise serve a curtailed, one-year jail sentence on power-abuse and misconduct charges perpetrated during his previous premiership and instead been entrusted to manipulate the jaw-dropping setup of the Pheu Thai-led coalition government by dumping the Move Forward, a post-election former ally, and bringing in the Uncles’ Camps, namely the Palang Pracharath and Ruam Thai Sang Chart with the latter being loyal to de facto party boss/ex-coup leader-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, as well as to allocate cabinet portfolios among coalition partners and land certain Pheu Thai figures ministerial seats.
The primary precondition set by the powers-that-be for the de facto boss of the neo-conservative Pheu Thai to do in return for his revived power was to manage to keep the reformist Move Forward, which was dissolved by court to become the People’s, from rising in nationwide popularity, let alone ever running the country.
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Top: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan. Photo: Amarin TV
Insert: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra with her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Photo: Thai Rath
Front Page: Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan. Photo: Thai Rath
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