By Thai Newsroom Reporters A FORMER investigative subcommittee responsive to the Election Commission had originally advised that the Bhumjaithai, core of the current coalition government, be subject to partisan dissolution at an order of the Supreme Court due to their alleged involvement in the 2024 senatorial vote-buying, electoral-rigging conspiracy, a prominent political activist said
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Late MP’s son-in-law wins Udon Thani by-election
UNOFFICIAL result of a by-election held in Udon Thani Constituency 3 today (Aug. 30) with 95 percent of the votes counted shows Mr. Athikarn Kaewkruesri, son-in-law of late MP Rang Thuraphol from the Bhumjaithai Party, is the clear winner having got 36,097 of the votes, Naewna newspaper and PPTVHD36 said. There were 125,309 eligible
Read morePheu Thai could possibly be replaced by Klatham after censure debate: Anutin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (Aug.27) implied that the Pheu Thai, the second largest coalition partner of the Bhumjaithai-led government, could possibly be replaced by the patiently-awaiting Klatham following a future censure motion against himself and his cabinet. Without elaborating, the prime minister hinted that the Pheu Thai surreptitiously steered
Read moreGiven ‘blue’ power, Newin would fear nobody: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob has virtually maintained his camp so much in “blue” power and so effectively taken grips of government apparatuses plus “independent” agencies that he would ultimately have nobody in political circles to fear, according to a noted academic. Newin, largely known to direct and command
Read moreAnutin bows to Thaksin in bidding farewell after funeral service
AFTER attending the funeral service for former deputy interior minister and five-time MP Krieng Kalptinan in Ubon Ratchathani province last evening (Aug. 14) Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul walked with former prime minister Thaksin Shainawatra to his car and bade farewell by kneeling and bowing to him, Amarin TV said. Also attending the funeral service
Read moreAnutin downplays covert move of Klatham turncoat MPs for Bhumjaithai
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (Aug.10) shrugged off hearsay that a dozen Klatham MPs were quietly becoming turncoats from the fourth largest party headed by former agriculture & cooperatives minister Thammanat Prompao to the Bhumjaithai, core of the current coalition government, albeit in rebellious manner. The prime minister who concurrently
Read morePheu Thai departure from Bhumjaithai-led govt deemed unlikely
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI, the second largest coalition partner, will be very unlikely to break ranks with the Bhumjaithai, currently core of the coalition government, as far as the de facto bosses of both camps, namely Thaksin Shinawatra and Newin Chidchob respectively, are concerned, albeit in behind-the-scenes fashion, according to partisan
Read moreAnutin loses his cool over Newin-Pipat conflict
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (July 28) lost his cool and irritably retorted to any government critics who might probably take liberty to pry into “family-like” relationship between de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob and Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Transport Minister Pipat Ratchakitprakarn reportedly due to mutual conflict of interest. The prime
Read moreAnutin brands moves to possibly dissolve Bhumjaithai over senatorial rigging scandals ‘pathetic’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (July 27) called anyone’s legal moves to have the Bhumjaithai, core of the current coalition government, dissolved by court pertaining to 2024’s senatorial rigging scandals “pathetic” and repeatedly denied that he had been by any means involved in such electoral frauds. Asked by reporters whether
Read morePeople’s to ask NACC to launch probe into Bhumjaithai-led govt’s AI project
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PEOPLE’S plan to call on the National Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate the Bhumjaithai-led government’s disputable TH-AI Passport project on grounds of being allegedly prone to irregularities, cronyism and non-cost-effectiveness, People’s leader Nattapong Ruengpanyawut confirmed today (July 20). The largest opposition party is currently preparing to file a formal petition
Read moreJustice Minister reproached for avoiding House inquiry into senatorial rigging scandals
By Thai Newsroom Reporters JUSTICE Minister Rutthapol Naowarat was today (July 2) lambasted for unjustifiably circumventing the People’s-led, sustained probe into 2024’s senatorial vote-buying, electoral rigging scandals allegedly involving Bhumjaithai leader/Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob’s son/party secretary-general Chaichanok Chidchob, according to an opposition MP. Rutthapol was reportedly quoted
Read morePeople’s MPs not afraid of Chaichanok’s father: Rukchanok
By Thai Newsroom Reporters OUTSPOKEN PEOPLE’S MP Rukchanok Srinork today (June 24) reassured that she and fellow lawmakers of the largest opposition party will certainly remain undaunted by unlawful influence of de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob in regard to the contentious THAI-AI Passport project pushed by his son/Digital Economy & Society Minister Chaichanok
Read moreTV news commentary terminated after taking Newin’s son to task over AI project
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO BHUMJAITHAI boss Newin Chidchob may have been so displeased with a popular TV news commentary which had unrelentingly taken to task his son/Digital Economy & Society Minister Chaichanok Chidchob over the contentious TH-AI Passport project that he allegedly managed to put an abrupt end to it, according to
Read moreAnutin does not dare do anything to ‘boss’s son’ over AI project?
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul was today (June 15) taken to task for not trying to put an end to controversy over the TH-AI Passport project launched by Digital Economy & Society Minister Chaichanok Chidchob only because the latter is a son of the former’s boss, namely de facto Bhumajaithai boss
Read moreNewin’s protege tipped to be named Interior undersecretary despite ‘Do Help the Blue’ scandal
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A HIGH-RANKING, yet scandalous official of the Ministry of Interior has been surreptitiously destined to get promoted as undersecretary of the ministry now under command of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul later this year, despite an online text which he had allegedly sent to a certain government official to “Do Help
Read moreBhumjaithai to lodge own charter amendment bill
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE BHUMJAITHAI, core of the current coalition government, plans to put forward legislation on constitution amendment on Wednesday to the extent that the legislative role of senators to give approval in principle for the bill be substantially curtailed to better streamline its passage. The Bhumjaithai-attached Prime Minister’s Office Minister Paradorn
Read moreOwner of aircraft selling firm allegedly linked with Bhumjaithai
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE OWNER of a private firm which has questionably won an aircraft procurement project from a government agency was alleged of being covertly associated with the Bhumjaithai, core of the current coalition government steered behind the scenes by de facto party boss Newin Chidchob, according to an informed source. Forth
Read moreNikorn tipped to replace unqualified Sudawan for Pheu Thai ministerial seat
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PHEU THAI MP Nikorn Somklang has been speculated to replace MP Sudawan Wangsupakitkosol for a ministerial seat in a potential Bhumjaithai-led cabinet under Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, a partisan source said today (March 27). Nikorn, widely known as a protege of the Wangsupakitkosol family, a “Big House” of veteran politicians
Read moreSomsak awaits ministerial seat down to the wire
SOMSAK THEPSUTHIN, co-leader of the Sam Mit faction inside the Pheu Thai, the second largest coalition partner of a potential Bhumjaithai-led government, has been quietly awaiting a last-minute change in the list of Pheu Thai ministers-designate which might probably see himself included, a partisan source said today (March 25). Though the list of eight
Read moreAnutin II cabinet to have 28 ministers under Bhumjaithai quota, 8 under Pheu Thai
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A BHUMJAITHAI-LED cabinet of ministers headed by Prime Minister-Designate Anutin Charnvirakul will likely consist of 24 Bhumjaithai figures plus four “non-politician” technocrats under the quota of the largest elected party steered by de facto party boss Newin Chidchob and eight others from the Pheu Thai, the second largest coalition partner,
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