By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul has been taken to task for alleged lack of personal maturity and emotional control since he recently lost his cool blatantly lashing at whom he called “pathetic” critics.
NIDA’s Doctorate Project For Politics & Development Strategies Director Pichai Ratanadilok na Phuket remarked that Anutin was obviously doing without personal maturity and emotional control otherwise characteristic of head of government when he frustratedly responded to allegations that he had been evidently involved among other Bhumjaithai members of cabinet in an electoral rigging conspiracy over the 2024 senatorial races.
“Anutin could probably have forgotten about himself being head of government under democratic rule and not under dictatorial rule when he abruptly lost his cool and irritably retorted to those who had only looked to keep his government in check,” Pichai commented.
The NIDA academic said the prime minister should not have humiliated or sneered at those who were monitoring or putting his Bhumjaithai-led government to blame with witness-based accusations and should have instead made truthful, reasonable responses.
The prime minister who concurrently acts as interior minister and leader of the Bhumjaithai, core of the current coalition government, had been apparently angered by such allegations publicly launched by Yingcheep Atchanont, project manager of iLaw activist group, and the People’s-led opposition lawmakers in what he bluntly branded with a chuckle as a “pathetic” legal move toward a possible ouster of him and his partisan colleagues from government and a possible dissolution of their largest ruling party due to their alleged involvement in the senatorial rigging shenanigans.
Meanwhile, the iLaw activist has posted on his Facebook page to express his gratitude for those who have donated him a combined sum of over two million baht in cash so far to spend on his looming legal battles against the prime minister and several Bhumjaithai members of cabinet, among others, whom he had accused of having been one way or another involved in the senatorial rigging conspiracy.
Yingcheep will be legally obliged to defend himself from defamatory lawsuits separately filed against him by the accused in provincial courts probably in all parts of the country.
It remains to be seen around next month whether the Election Commission will eventually proceed to court the prosecution of any of the total 229 suspects ranging from the prime minister-cum-Bhumjaithai leader and those Bhumjaithai cabinet members to as many as 138 senators on charges of undue involvement in the electoral fraud.
Nevertheless, the seven polling commissioners, four of whom had been contentiously named by the pro-Bhumjaithai senators, could possibly resolve to not forward lawsuits to the Supreme Court against prominent figures in government or a majority of suspected senators and to sacrifice “small fish” instead.
Anutin had allegedly attended an informal meeting of a majority of senators at Pullman Bangkok King Power hotel where they picked a Senate speaker and a couple of deputy Senate speakers among themselves.
Those senators had scored victories in the complicated, triple-tiered election, allegedly given the premeditated rigging shenanigans designed by persons covertly, personally associated with the Bhumjaithai, the ultra-conservative camp under hush-hush command of de facto party boss Newin Chidchob.
Anutin has recently admitted to having visited that particular hotel privately and “on a daily basis” long before the notorious senatorial election was held two years ago. Besides, Newin has been reportedly spotted there every once in a while.
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Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. Above photo – Amarin TV, Front Page – PPTVHD36
First insert: NIDA academic Pichai Ratanadilok na Phuket. Photo – PPTVHD36
Second insert: Project manager of iLaw activist group Yingcheep Atchanont. Photo – PPTVHD36
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