By Thai Newsroom Reporters
BHUMJAITHAI LEADER ANUTIN Charnvirakul said today (June 13) the coalition partner would rather become an opposition party if he himself was removed as interior minister anytime soon.
The titular leader of the second largest coalition partner steered by de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob declined to say whether he would consider assuming any ministerial seat other than the interior minister’s seat in a new cabinet lineup speculated later this month.
However, Anutin told reporters today his ultra-conservative camp would rather be part of the opposition bloc if he was transferred from the interior portfolio by Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in the imminent cabinet lineup.
The current interior minister who concurrently acts as deputy prime minister made his latest comment in response to the woman prime minister’s father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s evident design to take control of the interior portfolio from the Bhumjaithai whereas the next general election for MPs could possibly be held barely a couple of years from now.
In addition to uncertainties of Newin’s camp remaining as part of the Pheu Thai-led coalition, the Ruam Thai Sang Chart future in government would decidedly depend on the whims of the prime minister’s father.
The ultra-conservative Ruam Thai Sang Chart is apparently disintegrating due to conflict of interest emerging between prominent members of the military-installed party’s rank and file.
At stake are the energy and industry portfolios currently held by Ruam Thai Sang Chart leader Pirapan Salirathavibhaga who concurrently acts as deputy prime minister and Ruam Thai Sang Chart secretary-general Eknath Prompan respectively.
The power-playing Thaksin might probably look to reshuffle the cabinet to the extent that those portfolios be either held by the Pheu Thai or Bhumjaithai in lieu of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart previously under former de facto party boss/former coup leader-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha who had finally decided to keep his hands off politics and to only tend to a privy councillor’s seat.
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Top: De facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob, left, de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, right, and Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul,centre. Photo: MNG Online
Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, right, and Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul, left. Photo: PPTVHD36
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