BHUMJAITHAI Party leader-cum-Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul this afternoon (Jan. 9) held talks with US Ambassador Robert Godec on Covid-19 and Thai politics after the upcoming general election, INN News said. The US Ambassador and his delegation met Anutin, who is also Public Health Minister, at the party’s head office at 2 p.m. with
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Bhumjaithai Party to name only one candidate for PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE BHUMJAITHAI PARTY will definitely name only one partisan candidate for prime minister in the next general election, confirmed Bhumjaithai spokesman Paradon Prisnananthakul today (Dec.17). The second largest coalition partner has undoubtedly planned to name Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul as partisan contestant for head of a post-election government and nobody else,
Read moreNearly 40 ex-MPs have joined Bhumjaithai Party
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NEARLY 40 FORMER MPs have today (Dec.16) showed up at the Bhumjaithai Party headquarters where they have freshly registered themselves as partisan members with reported intent to contest the next general election under the tickets of the second-largest coalition partner. Those ex-MPs have earlier resigned as members of the Palang
Read moreTwo party-hopping MPs quit in prelude to 40-plus others
By Thai Newsroom Reporters TWO MPs HAVE RESIGNED ahead of dozens of others who will follow suit very shortly, given a shared intent to contest the next general election under the tickets of the Bhumjaithai Party. House Speaker Chuan Leekpai confirmed today (Dec.14) that Detthawee Sriwichai has resigned as Thai Liberal MP of Lampang
Read moreOnly one-third of party-hopping MPs to get reelected: Chonlanan
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ONLY ONE-THIRD OF the Pheu Thai MPs who will likely switch camps might probably make it to parliament again, forecast Pheu Thai Party leader Chonlanan Srikaew today (Dec.12). The opposition leader was apparently responding to speculation that 10 Pheu Thai MPs will likely hop over to the Bhumjaithai Party under which
Read more40-plus coalition, opposition MPs to hop over to Bhumjaithai shortly
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MORE THAN 40 MPs will likely hop over from their current camps either on the coalition side or opposition bloc to the Bhumjaithai Party very shortly, said partisan sources today (Dec.11). Those politicians who are expected to defect within the upcoming Thursday at the cost of their own MP status to
Read moreSathit never persuaded to hop over: Anutin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI PARTY leader Anutin Charnvirakul today (Nov.17) categorically denied he had ever persuaded deputy Democrat Party leader Sathit Pitutecha to go party-hopping. Anutin who concurrently acts as deputy prime minister-cum-public health minister said he had never extended an informal invitation to Sathit who concurrently performs as deputy public health minister
Read moreAnutin shrugs off party dissolution bid over free-marijuana campaign
By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI PARTY leader Anutin Charnvirakul today (Oct. 18) shrugged off a reported plan of the opposition bloc to file an unprecedented lawsuit against the second-largest coalition party over their free-marijuana campaign. Anutin who concurrently performs as deputy prime minister-cum-public health minister contended that his party’s electoral campaign to legalise the
Read morePush to dissolve Bhumjaithai Party over free-marijuana campaign
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE BHUMJAITHAI PARTY is facing an unprecedented lawsuit involving their previous free-marijuana campaign which might possibly result in the dissolution of the second-largest coalition partner, said Pheu Thai party leader Chonlanan Srikaew today (Oct. 17). The Pheu Thai-led opposition bloc has resolved to file a lawsuit against the Bhumjaithai Party,
Read moreDe facto Bhumjaithai boss vows to send Anutin running for PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO BHUMJAITHAI boss Newin Chidchob today (Oct. 4) pledged to send Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Public Health Minister-cum-Bhumjaithai party leader Anutin Charnvirakul contesting for prime minister in the next general election. During the 64th birthday celebrations held at Chang Arena in his home province of Buriram, the de facto Bhumjaithai boss
Read moreBhumjaithai Party all set to keep Prayut in power: Nattawut
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER RED SHIRT leader Nattawut Saikua today (June 18) discouraged local villagers of Sisaket from picking any future Bhumjaithai candidates running for MPs otherwise, he said, they would only look to keep Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in power beyond the next general election. During the so-called “Chase the Rat, Swat
Read moreBhumjaithai leader shrugs off Pheu Thai drive to recruit Red Shirt activists
By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI PARTY leader Anutin Charnvirakul today (June 17) shrugged off tomorrow’s planned recruitment of Red Shirt activists as Pheu Thai Family members in certain parts of Sisaket, considering it as a commonplace campaign tactic. Anutin who concurrently acts as deputy prime minister-cum-public health minister referred to the fresh popularity-wooing campaign launched
Read moreDemocrat, Bhumjaithai parties tipped to withdraw from Prayut government
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE DEMOCRAT AND BHUMJAITHAI parties are largely expected to withdraw from the coalition government under Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in foreseeable future in the face of his alleged failures to address the domestic pandemic situation, said a noted political activist yesterday (July 12). Sombat Boonngam-anong, leader of a sustained anti-Prayut protest
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