By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a significant twist in Thailand’s volatile political climate, former prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has today (Oct. 22) called it quits as Pheu Thai leader, leaving the neo-conservative party in limbo ahead of a general election which may be held in the next four or five
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Chaikasem ready to follow party’s decision
PHEU THAI’S candidate for prime minister MP Chaikasen Nitisiri said this evening (Aug. 29) after the Constitutional Court deposed Paetongtarn Shinawatra as head of government that he is ready to follow his party’s decision on this key issue, Amarin TV said. He briefly told a reporter who contacted him that he is dining
Read morePeople’s offer conditional vote for new PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PEOPLE’S PARTY have today (Aug.29) offered to lend support the naming of a new prime minister on condition that the next head of government dissolve the House of Representatives and call a general election in four months after a new coalition government’s policy statement has been officially delivered. Following
Read morePaetongtarn ousted as PM by Constitutional Court over unethical, dishonest deal with Hun Sen
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Paetongtarn Shinawatra was today (Aug.29) impeached and deposed as head of government by the Constitutional Court for evidently perpetrating conduct in severe breach of ethics and in sheer lack of evident honesty during last June’s leaked cellphone chitchat between senior Cambodian leader Hun Sen and herself. The Constitutional
Read morePaetongtarn arrives at Govt House to hear verdict
By Naewna newspaper and Thai Newsroom SUSPENDED prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrived at Government House at 12.56 p.m. today (Aug. 29) to await the Constitutional Court’s historic court verdict on an impeachment lawsuit which might probably warrant an ouster of her as head of government if judged guilty of perpetrating conduct in severe breach
Read morePaetongtarn not visiting Constitutional Court on Judgment Day
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Paetongtarn Shinawatra is not going to visit the Constitutional Court on the upcoming Friday to hear an historic court verdict on an impeachment lawsuit which might probably warrant an ouster of her as head of government if judged guilty of perpetrating conduct in severe breach of ethics and
Read moreParallel lawsuit lodged in pursuit of Paetongtarn’s ouster by Supreme Court
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FOR FEAR OF the possibility that the court-suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra might be acquitted of an impeachment case by the Constitutional Court on the upcoming Friday, a parallel lawsuit was filed by a group of political activists to the National Anti-Corruption Commission today (Aug.26) and supposedly destined for the
Read moreThai-Khmer conflict could be resolved by anyone other than Paetongtarn: Ex-NSC Chief
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAI-CAMBODIAN border conflict could be peacefully, agreeably resolved if Thailand was run by any head of government other than the court-suspended, overly-naive Paetongtarn Shinawatra, said a former senior government official today (Aug.25). Thailand’s military missions and foreign policy toward Cambodia would be administered more effectively and sustainably to some extent
Read moreOffered payoffs feared to be the only way to save Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters OFFERED PAYOFFS might probably be the only way to attempt to save the court-suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from being deposed as head of government in a court verdict on an impeachment lawsuit scheduled for the upcoming Friday, according to a former senior government official. Fears of kickbacks in cash
Read morePaetongtarn urged to keep distance from dad to make decision on her own
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE COURT-SUSPENDED prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was suggested today (Aug.21) to virtually keep her distance from her power-playing father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra for the time being now that she still has time to decide for herself whether to step down or stay put until the Constitutional Court
Read morePaetongtarn in court: Body language shows pressure
WHILE being questioned by the judges of the Constitutional Court for an hour and half this morning (Aug. 21) body language experts said suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra showed clear signs of being under pressure, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon. Paetongtarn and National Security Council Secretary-General Chatchai Bangchuad testified in an impeachment case filed
Read morePaetongtarn arrives at Constitutional Court to testify in impeachment case
Updated SUSPENDED prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrived at the Constitutional Court to testify in the impeachment case filed against her over her leaked cellphone conversation with Cambodian leader Hun Sen at 9.20 a.m. this morning (Aug. 21), Naewna newspaper said. She was accompanied by Dr. Prommin Lertsuridej, secretary-general to the Prime Minister, and her
Read morePaetongtarn advised to admit making mistake during chitchat with Hun Sen
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PAETONGTARN SHINAWATRA was yesterday (Aug.20) suggested to wholeheartedly accept during today’s (Aug.21) testimony before the Constitutional Court the mistake which she evidently made during last June’s leaked cellphone conversation with Cambodian leader Hun Sen in effort to help herself survive an impeachment lawsuit filed in pursuit of her ouster as
Read morePaetongtarn’s refusal to step down means predicted survival in court: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE COURT-SUSPENDED prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been quietly assured of a victory in court over an impeachment lawsuit, thus resolutely refusing to step down at any time from now until Aug.29, the date on which the Constitutional Court is scheduled to deliver a verdict on it, according to a
Read morePaetongtarn urged to step down due to Pheu Thai-led govt’s instability
By Thai Newsroom Reporters CHIEF OPPOSITION WHIP Pakornwut Udompipatsakul today (Aug.19) called on the court-suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to step down now, regardless of an approaching verdict of the Constitutional Court on an impeachment lawsuit filed against her. The MP of the People’s, the largest opposition party, said the embattled prime minister, daughter
Read morePaetongtarn to testify in court over leaked phone chitchat with Hun Sen
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE COURT-SUSPENDED prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra would likely testify before the Constitutional Court next Thursday over an impeachment lawsuit filed against her in the wake of a leaked cellphone chitchat between Cambodian leader Hun Sen and herself, according to Prommin Lertsuridej, secretary-general to the embattled prime minister. Prommin said today
Read moreThaksin anticipates Paetongtarn’s survival over impeachment bid
By Thai Newsroom Reporters GIVEN A LAST-DITCH lobbyism and abundant resources at his disposal, de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra is certainly anticipating his daughter/court-suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to barely survive an impeachment lawsuit which could otherwise result in an ouster of the elected head of government by court later this month,
Read morePaetongtarn might resign before verdict on August 29: Somchai
WITH THE Constitutional Court having today (Aug. 13) announced that the verdict on an impeachment case against suspended Prime Minister/Culture Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra over a leaked telephone conversation with Cambodian leader Hun Sen about the border conflict is to be delivered on August 29, experts are now predicting that she will resign before then,
Read moreRally held to support troops at the border and press Paetongtarn to resign
A DEMONSTRATION got underway at the Victory Monument today (Aug. 2) to show support for troops at the Thai-Cambodian border after five days of clashes and also demand that suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra resign without waiting for the Constitutional Court’s verdict, Thai Rath newspaper said. The rally, arranged by the Ruam Palang Phaendin
Read morePaetongtarn told to stay away from Pheu Thai campaign for Sisaket by-election
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE COURT-SUSPENDED PRIME MINISTER Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been suggested to never get on the Pheu Thai stump for next month’s by-election for MP of Sisaket, given the probability that her presence could otherwise prompt a defeat rather than a victory for the Pheu Thai contestant, a partisan source said today
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