By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a sustained tug-of-war, Pheu Thai leader Julapun Amornvivat said today (Dec.6) he cannot tell exactly on what date a censure motion against Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and any other members of the Bhumjaithai-led cabinet may be filed in the House of Representatives where a regular
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Yingluck might be accused during censure debate of taking scammers’ bribes, albeit unknowingly
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER PRIME MINISTER YINGLUCK Shinawatra could possibly be accused in absentia and retroactive fashion of taking kickbacks from suspected scammers, albeit unaware of their rogue activities, unless a censure motion against Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul or any other members of the Bhumjaithai-led cabinet in the House of Representatives was foiled
Read morePM urged to brave censure debate in lieu of dissolving House to preempt it
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER ANUTIN Charnvirakul was today (Oct.28) advised against dissolving the House of Representatives only to avoid censure debate on the Cambodia-based scammer issue, among other hot topics besieging the Bhumjaithai-led, minority government. People’s spokesperson/MP Parit Watcharasindhu encouraged the prime minister-cum-interior minister to not dissolve the House to call a
Read moreAnutin to keep himself from being ousted by no-confidence votes
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER ANUTIN Charnvirakul could possibly become Thailand’s first head of government to be deposed by way of no-confidence votes as an aftermath of censure debate if he failed to circumvent such unbecoming phenomena via a preemptive House dissolution. Given the fact that the current Bhumjaithai-led government is a minority
Read morePM might dissolve House in early Dec. to evade censure debate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER ANUTIN Charnvirakul might probably be pressed to dissolve the House of Representatives to call a general election by early December and might not wait until late January to do so as earlier anticipated. The prime minister may eventually decide to circumvent censure debate which might otherwise be launched
Read morePeople’s MP to quiz Revenue Dept about promissory notes
PEOPLE’S Party MP and deputy leader Wirote Lakhanaadisorn said he will be going to the Revenue Department on Friday (March 28) to ask for details on the use of promissory notes in transferring shares after this issue was raised during the marathon censure debate against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thai Rath newspaper said this
Read morePaetongtarn smoothly survives censure motion
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra has today (March 26) survived a censure motion with a majority of MPs casting votes of support for her. After two days of censure debate against the woman prime minister/daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra at parliament, 319 Pheu Thai-led coalition MPs cast
Read morePaetongtarn dismisses Thaksin’s ‘deal with the Devil’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra today (March 25) categorically dismissed allegations that her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra had returned home from self-exile abroad under “the deal with the Devil.” Responding to the allegations launched by People’s MP Rangsiman Rome a few hours earlier during today’s censure debate in
Read morePaetongtarn accused of involvement in Thaksin’s cover-up
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra was today (March 25) relentlessly grilled for alleged involvement in her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s whitewash conspiracy to literally spare himself a one-year jail term upon his return from self-exile overseas in 2023. During the second day of censure debate at parliament, People’s
Read morePM returns home after attending censure debate for almost 15 hours
PRIME MINISTER Paetongtarn Shinawatra returned home last night after participating in the no-confidence debate from 08.15 a.m. to 10.32 p.m., a total of 14 hours and 17 minutes, Amarin TV and Thai Rath newspaper said. Reporters asked her about the perplexing word “kiki” being mentioned during the debate, and Paetongtarn replied: “I just heard
Read morePaetongtarn grilled for lacking credentials, covering up Prayut’s mess
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra was relentlessly taken to task today (March 24) for alleged lack of credentials and doing without evident honesty whilst virtually running the country as a “puppet” leader pulled around by her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. During the first day of a two-day censure
Read moreSomchai gives Prawit high marks, slams PM
FORMER election commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn rated the performance of the opposition MPs and Prime Minister Paetongtorn Shinawatra during this morning’s (March 24) no-confidence debate being impressed by Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan while slamming the premier for her brief replies, Naewna newspaper said. (1) Opposition and People’s Party leader Natthapong Ruengpanyawut: He debated smoothly
Read moreThaksin helps PM gear for censure debate starting tomorrow
DE FACTO Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra said this evening (March 23) that he has helped his daughter/Prime Minister Paetongtan Shinawatra prepare for the non-confidence debate starting tomorrow and is confident she would be able to answer all the questions asked within the rules, Amarin TV said. As for the big target, which is
Read moreCensure debate against PM tipped to be scorching, relentless
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SCATHING, RELENTLESS verbal barrages and intermittent, vehement protests will likely prevail over a two-day censure debate on the House floor beginning on the upcoming Monday against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Though the historic motion launched by the People’s-led opposition bloc was primarily designed to grill the country’s second woman prime
Read morePM furious over alleged deal for Shinawatra family
PRIME MINISTER Paetongtarn Shinawatra snapped at reporters today (March 20) when questioned about the no-confidence debate, set for Monday-Tuesday March 24-25, with the opposition’s theme allegedly being “a country deal” for Shinawatra family, pointing out that everything must be done with reason, not emotion, Amarin TV said. Paetongtarn has become the sole target of
Read morePrawit to take the floor on censure debate against Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WILL BE SEEN as a rare political phenomenon, Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan plans to take the House floor during censure debate against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra later this month. That will mark the first time that Prawit, a former deputy prime minister and currently the leader of
Read morePheu Thai taken to task for not relying on Paetongtarn in censure debate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI, core of the current coalition government, was today (March 1) taken to task for alleged failure to trust their own leader/Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in a censure debate scheduled for later this month. That the Pheu Thai under de facto party boss Thaksin Shinawatra has resolved to
Read morePaetongtarn sole target of censure debate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra has become the sole target of a censure motion due no later than the second week of next month, given allegations that she is virtually merely a “puppet” pulled by her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. The censure motion was today (Feb.27) lodged by
Read morePeople’s Party tells Pheu Thai it’s not too soon for a censure debate
PEOPLE’S Party hit back at Pheu Thai after being accused of launching a no-confidence debate too soon as this government has only been at the helm for three months by pointing out that the timing depends on when corruption occurs, Naewna newspaper said late yesterday (Dec. 5). People’s MP Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn said that as
Read morePeople’s Party MPs preparing for heated debate on govt policy statement
PEOPLE’S Party MP Sirikanya Tansakul said the debate on Pheu Thai-led coalition government’s policy statement to be delivered by Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra which is scheduled to take place next Thursday and Friday (Sep. 12-13) will be intense with her party gearing up field 30 MPs to question it, Naewna newspaper said today (Sep.
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