By Thai Newsroom Reporters NUALPAN LAMSAM, better known as Madam Pang, might probably be named Democrat secretary-general in a party caucus to pick a new leadership of the Old School conservative camp scheduled for the upcoming Saturday, a partisan source said today (Oct.13). Madam Pang, the current president of the Football Association of Thailand,
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Chuan threatened ouster as Democrat MP
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER DEMOCRAT LEADER Chuan Leekpai was quietly threatened with an immediate ouster as partisan member if he made concrete moves to keep the country’s oldest party from joining the Pheu Thai-led coalition government, according to partisan sources. Chuan, a former prime minister and currently a Democrat MP, had verbally raised
Read moreJubilant Thaksin shows no signs of ‘illnesses’ while attending Chiang Mai’s Songkran festival
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra has been seen jubilantly joining northern villagers in celebrating Songkran festival at venues in Chiang Mai over the weekend without a single trace of any “illnesses” as earlier claimed. Thaksin’s “illnesses” earlier reported by the authorities have not evidently shown any
Read morePM hurls a surprise retort at Democrats during censure debate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN AS a surprise retort, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin today (Apr. 3) lambasted the Democrats in the middle of the House chamber, saying they could be merely looking to skip over from the opposition bloc to the Pheu Thai-led coalition government. In response to former Democrat leader
Read moreMore Democrats resign in protest of Chalermchai
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MORE DEMOCRAT MEMBERS have resigned in tacit protest of Saturday’s naming of Democrat leader Chalermchai Sri-on. Former Democrat MP/former minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office Satit Wongnongtoey and former Democrat MP Orn-anong Kanchanachusak have called it quits as members of the second largest opposition party with several others speculated
Read moreChuan tells Chalermchai not to turn into a party ‘reserved’ as future coalition partner
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER DEMOCRAT LEADER Chuan Leekpai today (Dec.10) suggested the newly-named Democrat leader Chalermchai Sri-on, the Democrat MPs and fellow partisan members never turn into a party “reserved” as a future coalition partner. Without naming names, Chuan, a former prime minister and a former House speaker/now a Democrat party-listed MP, said
Read moreDemocrats in talks with Thaksin but not part of coalition yet
AS PHEU Thai Party continues to forge a coalition government, Democrat Party Secretary-General Chalermchai Sri-on was asked to fly to Hong Kong to hold talks with the party’s de facto leader Thaksin Shinawatra but he sent a representative with no conclusion reached yet, Manager Online and Naewna newspaper said today (July 28). Instead of
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