By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra has today (March 26) survived a censure motion with a majority of MPs casting votes of support for her.
After two days of censure debate against the woman prime minister/daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra at parliament, 319 Pheu Thai-led coalition MPs cast votes of confidence for her, compared to 162 votes of no-confidence cast by People’s-led opposition MPs.
However, seven lawmakers abstained from voting though they were attending the House session alongside others.
Paetongtarn has been relentlessly grilled by the People’s MPs for alleged lack of prerequisite credentials as head of the Pheu Thai-led coalition government, failure to run the country as effectually as earlier promised to the public and having quietly taken part in her father’s six-month-long cover-up as a “critically ill” patient at Police Hospital to evade a one-year jail term after the convict at large had returned home from self-exile abroad in 2023 allegedly provided under a “deal with the Devil”, among other accusations.
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Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Top photo: Amarin TV, Front Page photo: Thai Rath
Below: Pheu Thai-led coalition MPs and People’s-led opposition MPs gather in two separate groups after the no-confidence debate ended late last night, March 25, 2025. Photos: Naewna
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