By Thai Newsroom Reporters YODCHANAN Wongsawat, nephew of de facto Pheu Thai boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra, would probably be named leader of the neo-conservative party sooner or later in place of the current, powerless one, Julapun Amornvivat, according to a partisan source. Yodchanan, son of Thaksin’s sister Yaowapa Wongsawat and former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat,
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No more People’s vote for Anutin for PM: Nattapong
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PEOPLE’S WILL ultimately not vote in support of Caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul for head of government again under any circumstances after the Feb.8 general election, People’s leader Nattapong Ruengpanyawut reconfirmed today (Jan.12). Though the People’s ex-MPs had done so to land Anutin an elected premiership with a Bhumjaithai-led
Read moreYodchanan rules out possibility of anyone predestined for PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters YODCHANAN WONGSAWAT, one of a trio of Pheu Thai candidates for prime minister, today (Jan.5) categorically dismissed the possibility that a certain person might already be predestined to be named head of government after the Feb.5 election and advised that all voters be given due respect as part of the
Read moreThaksin’s brother-in-law Somchai outvoted for senator
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a last-minute twist of a significant political phenomenon, former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, brother-in-law to de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, has been outvoted for senator. The former prime minister has been finally denied adequate votes by fellow contestants at national level of the
Read moreYaowapa is back for Pheu Thai constituency-based contestants
By Thai Newsroom Reporters YAOWAPA WONGSAWAT, sister of deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has come back to the political arena to help electoral contestants running in constituency mode under the Pheu Thai banners, albeit in behind-the-scenes fashion, a partisan source confirmed today (Feb.28). Known as head of Wang Bua Barn faction which used to
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