By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra was today (March 25) relentlessly grilled for alleged involvement in her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s whitewash conspiracy to literally spare himself a one-year jail term upon his return from self-exile overseas in 2023.
During the second day of censure debate at parliament, People’s MP Rangsiman Rome accused the prime minister of having taken part in the alleged conspiracy to stage a fake-out of her father who had unconvincingly pretended to be critically ill after the de facto Pheu Thai boss had returned home and been given contentious leniency to the extent that he did not spend a single day behind bars to otherwise serve his curtailed, one-year jail sentence due to power abuse and misconduct charges of which he had been earlier ruled by court as guilty.
“The prime minister has performed in sheer lack of evident honesty since she did not only know that her father was literally not ill as he feigned it but helped with his cover-ups. This obviously manifested her lack of evident honesty, unduly promoting double standards for her father to stay above the law even before she was named prime minister,” the People’s MP alleged whilst taking the House floor during the marathon censure debate.
“The prime minister conspired to promote undue privileges for Big Boss to the extent that he did not have to literally spend a single day in jail but be taken care of as a highly-privileged patient at Police Hospital,” he said, referring to the de facto Pheu Thai boss.
Without “a deal with the Devil”, former coup leader-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha could have kept the de facto Pheu Thai boss behind bars at Bangkok Remand prison, according to the opposition MP who stopped short of identifying “the Devil.”
He apparently referred to the hush-hush deal which had been allegedly made to allow the prime minister’s father to not only return home without being imprisoned and granted the questionable, six-month-long privileges at Police Hospital but to take part as a crucial power player, albeit behind the scenes.
Whilst the Corrections Department which had contentiously provided Thaksin the leniency of being “detained” at the hospital in lieu of the prison, announced his condition was “a matter of life and death”, Paetongtarn was spending leisure trips overseas, apparently oblivious to anything about her father’s “critical illnesses”, Rangsiman said.
The People’s MP said Thaksin was evidently found to have used a cellphone in his hospital ward with which he may have not only scanned content on social media but given out orders to his men and others in regard to the surprise setup of a post-election government.
Through his right-hand man namely Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, the de facto Pheu Thai boss who was given parole after six months in the hospital had allegedly manipulated the setup of the Pheu Thai-led coalition government, naming of former real estate mogul Srettha Thavisin as prime minister, allocation of cabinet portfolios among coalition partners and naming of entrusted Pheu Thai figures for cabinet members.
“The prime minister’s involvement in such law-breaking cover-ups for her father was tantamount to abetting an inmate’s jailbreak, which could possibly be subject to a maximum of 10 years in jail,” the People’s MP charged amidst protests intermittently staged to no avail on the House floor by Pheu Thai MPs.
Nevertheless, Paetongtarn who attended today’s House debate with the grilling of the woman prime minister as the sole target of censure declined to respond and defend herself immediately after Rangsiman had finished his verbal barrage.
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People’s MP Rangsiman Rome. Top photo: Thai Rath, Front Page photo: Naewna
Insert: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Photo: Thai Rath
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