By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE BHUMJAITHAI and Ruam Thai Sang Chart could possibly part company with the Pheu Thai-led government if their titular leaders were kicked out of the cabinet at any given time, suggested a noted academic today (June 6).
Given Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s evident design to take control of the interior and energy portfolio currently held by Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul and Ruam Thai Sang Chart leader Pirapan Salirathavibhaga respectively, both coalition partners could possibly protest by parting company with the Pheu Thai-led coalition government, according to Pornchai Theppanya, former dean of Ramkhamhaeng University’s Political Science Faculty.
The Ruam Thai Sang Chart is apparently disintegrating, following suit of the Palang Pracharath, after de facto party boss/former coup leader-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had eventually kept his hands off of politics, prompting a renegade clique of MPs led by Deputy Commerce Minister Suchart Chomklin to skip over to the New Opportunity, dumping Pirapan and other partisan colleagues in the opposition bloc.
Pornchai said the mega-billionaire/power playing Thaksin’s design could possibly fizzle out due to the resolute departure of the Bhumjaithai and Ruam Thai Sang Chart without such thorns in the sides among those in their respective rank and file.
It remains to be seen whether Thammanat Prompao, a maverick Klatham MP stalwart to and entrusted by the prime minister’s father, could successfully maintain adequate support in the House of Representatives for legislations and motions put forward by the Pheu Thai-led government if the Bhumjaithai and Ruam Thai Sang Chart were no longer coalition partners, according to the Ramkhamhaeng academic.
Nevertheless, less than a dozen of the 36 Ruam Thai Sang Chart MPs would offer to be on the opposition side of the House chamber’s aisle whilst about 27 or more renegade lawmakers of the current coalition party would likely skip over to the New Opportunity if they were formally ousted from the former camp.
Pirapan could possibly not only be removed as energy minister in a new cabinet lineup anticipated to happen within this month but be kicked out of the Pheu Thai-led coalition alongside those partisan colleagues who may choose to remain on his side for whatever reasons.
The Ruam Thai Sang Chart-attached Suchart and 20-plus colleagues of the same party have looked to retain a few ministerial seats under the New Opportunity tickets whilst Pirapan would probably be ousted and replaced with the likes of Supattanapong Punmeechaow, a former deputy prime minister-cum-energy minister, in the approaching cabinet lineup.
The Ruam Thai Sang Chart could possibly follow suit of a sensational Palang Pracharath exodus spearheaded by the maverick Thammanat who eventually landed a clique of 20 renegade MPs including himself the partisan membership of the Klatham titularly led by Agriculture & Cooperatives Minister Narumon Pinyosinwat.
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Top and Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Photos: Thai Rath
Insert: Academic Pornchai Theppanya. Photo: Thai Rath
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