Palang Pracharath opposes Pheu Thai govt’s casino projects

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

THE PALANG PRACHARATH has resolved to oppose the Pheu Thai-led government’s contentious scheme to open casinos as part of entertainment complex projects anywhere in Thailand.

 Deputy Palang Pracharath leader Chaiwut Thanakhamanusorn confirmed today (Jan.27) the opposition party’s executive board has definitely disagreed to the planned construction of mega-billion entertainment complex projects which lawfully include casinos in Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, among other tourist spots.

 Many people would likely be obsessed with loss-ridden gambling activity at any casino designed by the Pheu Thai-led government to open under an excuse of the tourism-promoting entertainment complex whilst the gamblers’ households could possibly get into debt and gambling-related crimes emerge, Chaiwut said.

 As much as 90% of a total profit from an entertainment complex is believed to directly come from earnings at a casino to open in its premises, he said.

 Certain persons associated with the ruling Pheu Thai under de facto party boss Thaksin Shinawatra, father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, could probably anticipate enormous profits from it, according to the deputy leader of the Palang Pracharath led by former deputy prime minister Prawit Wongsuwan.

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