By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra categorically denied he had ordered legislation to keep the military top brass under control of an elected government or to thwart possible future coups saying he was “personally appalled” by it. The billionaire power player recently confided to partisan members that he had
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PM denies plot to interfere in military affairs with anti-coup legislation
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra today (Dec. 11) categorically denied her Pheu Thai-led government might probably seek to interfere in military affairs with a planned anti-coup legislation. Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, told reporters at Government House that the current coalition government would by no means
Read morePeople’s MP backs Pheu Thai’s anti-coup legislation
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PEOPLE’S MP PARIT Wacharasindhu today (Dec. 10) endorsed a fresh move of the Pheu Thai to put forward an anti-coup legislation, given a numerical advantage of MPs supposedly in support of it. The MP of the People’s, the largest in the opposition bloc, insisted that the anti-coup legislation drafted by
Read moreGen. Prawit asks anti-coup protesters ‘is there a coup?’
AS People’s Party gets ready to hold a rally against coup d’etat at Ladprao intersection this evening (Nov. 27) Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan countered by pointing out there isn’t one taking place, Siam Rath newspaper reported. Asked by reporters whether this evening’s rally to train against a coup is an attempt to rouse the
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