PM returns home after attending censure debate for almost 15 hours
PRIME MINISTER Paetongtarn Shinawatra returned home last night after participating in the no-confidence debate from 08.15 a.m. to 10.32 p.m., a total of 14 hours and 17 minutes, Amarin TV and Thai Rath newspaper said. Reporters asked her about the perplexing word “kiki” being mentioned during the debate, and Paetongtarn replied: “I just heard […]
Read MorePaetongtarn grilled for lacking credentials, covering up Prayut’s mess
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra was relentlessly taken to task today (March 24) for alleged lack of credentials and doing without evident honesty whilst virtually running the country as a “puppet” leader pulled around by her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. During the first day of a two-day censure […]
Read MoreSomchai gives Prawit high marks, slams PM
FORMER election commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn rated the performance of the opposition MPs and Prime Minister Paetongtorn Shinawatra during this morning’s (March 24) no-confidence debate being impressed by Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan while slamming the premier for her brief replies, Naewna newspaper said. (1) Opposition and People’s Party leader Natthapong Ruengpanyawut: He debated smoothly […]
Read MoreThaksin helps PM gear for censure debate starting tomorrow
DE FACTO Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra said this evening (March 23) that he has helped his daughter/Prime Minister Paetongtan Shinawatra prepare for the non-confidence debate starting tomorrow and is confident she would be able to answer all the questions asked within the rules, Amarin TV said. As for the big target, which is […]
Read MoreCensure debate against PM tipped to be scorching, relentless
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SCATHING, RELENTLESS verbal barrages and intermittent, vehement protests will likely prevail over a two-day censure debate on the House floor beginning on the upcoming Monday against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Though the historic motion launched by the People’s-led opposition bloc was primarily designed to grill the country’s second woman prime […]
Read MorePrawit to take the floor on censure debate against Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WILL BE SEEN as a rare political phenomenon, Palang Pracharath leader Prawit Wongsuwan plans to take the House floor during censure debate against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra later this month. That will mark the first time that Prawit, a former deputy prime minister and currently the leader of […]
Read MorePheu Thai taken to task for not relying on Paetongtarn in censure debate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI, core of the current coalition government, was today (March 1) taken to task for alleged failure to trust their own leader/Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in a censure debate scheduled for later this month. That the Pheu Thai under de facto party boss Thaksin Shinawatra has resolved to […]
Read MorePaetongtarn sole target of censure debate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra has become the sole target of a censure motion due no later than the second week of next month, given allegations that she is virtually merely a “puppet” pulled by her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. The censure motion was today (Feb.27) lodged by […]
Read MorePeople’s Party tells Pheu Thai it’s not too soon for a censure debate
PEOPLE’S Party hit back at Pheu Thai after being accused of launching a no-confidence debate too soon as this government has only been at the helm for three months by pointing out that the timing depends on when corruption occurs, Naewna newspaper said late yesterday (Dec. 5). People’s MP Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn said that as […]
Read MorePheu Thai shrugs off People’s Party’s censure move over Tak Bai case
PHEU THAI Party appears unconcerned by People’s Party gearing up to expand a case against its MP and former Fourth Army Region commander Pisal Watanawongkhiri believed to have gone abroad to escape arrest for his alleged involvement in 2004’s Tak Bai manslaughter into a no-confidence motion against the government, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon […]
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