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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People’s disapproves of new bid to file politically-motivated lese majeste lawsuit
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PEOPLE’S will ultimately disapprove of any imminent move to file a lese majeste lawsuit against those who may have tacitly said anything in arbitrary relation to the monarchy by literally telling anyone else to “do it for the one above” because such legal action could probably be politically motivated
Read morePopular page exposes lucky draw for 5 shotguns at official celebration
A WIDELY-FOLLOWED Facebook named “Sue Thuean” (Illegible Media) sparked widespread criticism online after posting details and images of a lavish 134th anniversary celebration of village headmen and subdistrict chiefs at Koh Phangan and Koh Tao islands where there was a lucky draw for five shotguns, Amarin TV and Naewna newspaper said today (Aug. 12).
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 morePeople’s leader lauds former Shinawatra family PMs meeting Asean leaders while slamming Anutin
PEOPLE’S leader and party-listed MP Nattapong Ruangpanyawut said talks between three former prime ministers of the Shinawatra family, Thaksin, Yingluck and Paetongtarn, with Asean leaders is a positive development if people’s problems are solved while criticising Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul for not moving fast enough to resolve the temporary ban on export of five
Read moreNACC, EC asked to probe ‘Do help the Blue’ scandals
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A COUPLE OF “independent” agencies are being petitioned tomorrow (June 9) to look into allegations that Provincial Administration Department Director-General Narucha Kosacivilize had unlawfully, evidently instructed his subordinate officials such as one in Phuket to “Do help the Blue” pertaining to the ruling Bhumjaithai’s electoral campaign earlier this year. People’s
Read moreAnutin urged to find out if Pipat involved in hoarding of oil
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul was today (April 10) encouraged to find out whether Transport Minister Pipat Ratchakitprakarn may have been allegedly involved in the illegal hoarding of oil by a politically-associated trader recently. During the second day of policy debate at parliament, People’s MP Rangsiman Rome called on the prime
Read morePeople’s has ‘invisible’ potential to win 200 MP seats: Thammasat academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PEOPLE’S is anticipated to have the “invisible” potential to win up to 200 MP seats in the Feb.8 election, roughly grabbing 50 more MP seats in constituency-based mode than in a previous election, according to a noted academic. Compared to 112 MP seats which the Move Forward, practically the
Read morePeople’s most popular, Nattapong most favourite for PM: Rajabhat Poll
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MOST PROSPECTIVE voters have expressed their preferences for the People’s whose party leader Nattapong Ruengpanyawut has emerged as the most favourite for prime minister whilst Caretaker Prime Minister/Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul who is seeking to prolong his rule after the Feb.8 election is far less favourite, according to the latest
Read morePeople’s contestant in Bangkok changed due to money-laundering charges
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A PEOPLE’S CONTESTANT was today (Dec.29) completely dismissed from running for MP in constituency-based mode in Bangkok in the face of an arrest warrant recently issued for his alleged involvement in a yet-unspecified money-laundering activity. The People’s executive board member Picharn Chaowapattanawong confirmed that the reformist party has ultimately deprived
Read morePeople’s names 4 contestants for deputy PMs, only Nattapong pitted for PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PEOPLE’S TODAY (Dec.18) named four partisan contestants who are merely running for deputy prime ministers whilst People’s leader Nattapong Ruengpanyawut will only vie for head of government in the Feb.8 election. During a two-day seminar of People’s electoral candidates at a Bangkok hotel, Nattapong formally unveiled the four People’s
Read morePeople’s vow to become largest elected camp in nationwide race to Parliament
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PEOPLE’S LEADER NATTAPONG Ruengpanyawut today (Dec.12) vowed to see to it that the reformist party will literally become the largest elected camp in an upcoming, general election so that, he remarked, they would be no longer “double-crossed” by others following yesterday’s political dilemma over unfruitful constitution amendment efforts which apparently
Read moreJulapan most favourite to be named Pheu Thai leader
By Thai Newsroom Reporters JULAPAN AMORNVIVAT has appeared to be the most favourite among the Pheu Thai rank and file to be named party leader in place of de facto party boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra’s daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra who has recently resigned, according to partisan sources. The former deputy finance minister/current Pheu Thai MP has
Read more4 Israeli soldiers nabbed with drugs at party celebrating ceasefire
FOUR Israeli soldiers on leave at Koh Phangan were caught possessing and taking some drugs at a noisy party in a villa celebrating the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, TV Channel 7 said today (Oct. 14). Pol. Lt. Col. Winij Bunchit, inspector of Tourist Police Station 5, Division 2, together with Koh Phangan District Chief Mr. Suriya
Read moreAbhisit won’t be able to stop Democrat MPs from departing
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA will likely be named Democrat leader again later this month but he could not do much to help restore the exponentially-ebbing popularity of the country’s oldest party or stop Democrat MPs from leaving for other camps during a run-up to a general election, speculated in the upcoming March,
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 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 morePeople’s to monitor 157 billion baht development fund
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PEOPLE’S LEADER Nattapong Ruengpanyawut today (July 22) pledged to see to it that his opposition party will closely follow the Pheu Thai-led government’s allocations of a sum of 157 billion baht in record funding for varied infrastructural development projects anticipated to be up for grabs by those connected with the
Read more1,200 policemen oversee Saturday’s demonstration
A TOTAL of 1,200 policemen will be deployed to control the demonstration at the Victory Monument on Saturday (June 28) with protesters urged to stay within the framework of the law and avoid affecting use of public space, Naewna newspaper said this evening (June 25). Pol. Lt. Gen. Archayon Kraithong, a police spokesperson, said
Read moreRenegade People’s MP virtually viewed as ‘cobra pickled in a bottle of brine’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PEOPLE’S today (May 13) decided to virtually “pickle a cobra in a bottle of brine” after a renegade People’s MP had demanded a formal ouster from the largest opposition party so he could practically skip over to a coalition camp. In a press conference at parliament, People’s leader Nattapong
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