By Thai Newsroom Reporters
A LATEST DECISION of People’s Secretary-General Sarayut Jailak was today (Dec.16) openly questioned by ex-People’s MP Traiwat Imjai after the former has contentiously denied the latter the opportunity to seek re-election for a constituency-based MP of Samut Prakarn in the Feb.18 general election.
Traiwat posted on his Facebook page today to question why Sarayut has decided to not send him seeking re-election in Constituency 8 of Samut Prakarn despite the fact that the People’s executive board had formally approved his sustained campaign for the Feb.8 election.
But the People’s secretary-general was quoted as saying he has had the ultimate right to veto resolutions of the party’s executive board. In addition to the People’s secretary-general, the party leader, namely Nattapong Ruengpanyawut, has such power to overrule the executive board’s resolutions, Sarayut, who is invariably known as personally close to ex-Future Forward leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and ex-Move Forward leader Chaithawat Tulathon, was quoted as saying.
Another partisan member, namely Theprit Pasi, was reported to run in place of Traiwat under the People’s tickets.
Traiwat has not yet unveiled whether he may finally seek re-election under the banners of another camp in the same constituency of one of Bangkok’s outlying provinces.
In the 2023 election, the then court-dissolved Move Forward which was practically turned into the People’s won all eight constituencies of Samut Prakarn.
In a related development, ex-People’s MP Tisana Choonhavan has also been denied the chance to seek re-election under the People’s banners whilst a dozen others who had mostly represented Bangkok or been elected as party-listed lawmakers have decided to give up their legislative career by no longer vying for MP seats either in constituency-based or party-listed mode though they may continue to work one way or another for the reformist camp.
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Top and Front Page – Former People’s MP Traiwut Imjai. Photo – Thai Rath
Insert – People’s Secretary-General Sarayut Jailak. Photo – Naewna
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