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Govt boasts of relieving people’s Covid hardship ahead of Prayut’s tenure verdict

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

THE NATION

The government on Friday showcased five measures it has taken to soften the Covid-19 impact, ahead of a court ruling on Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha’s tenure as prime minister.

Constitutional Court judges are scheduled to rule on Prayut’s tenure at 3pm. The verdict will be broadcast live on the Constitutional Court Office’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/สํานักงานศาลรัฐธรรมนูญ.

The court suspended Prayut as PM on August 24 after accepting the opposition’s petition for a ruling on whether he had reached his constitutional eight-year term limit.

On Friday, government spokeswoman Tipanan Sirichana listed measures the government had launched to mitigate pandemic hardship.

The five measures listed were:

1. “Rao Mai Ting Gun” (No One Left Behind) had handed payments of 5,000 baht per person to employees affected by the Covid crisis from April to June 2020.

2. Monthly payments of 1,000 baht to state welfare card holders affected by Covid from May to July 2020.

3. Boosting purchasing power of state welfare cardholders to buy necessities at Blue Flag shops.

4. “Khon La Khrueng” (Let’s Go Halves) shopping subsidy scheme to allow purchase of products and services at 50 per cent discount, capped at 150 baht per day.

5. Covid-19 relief measures issued by financial institutions such as loans, reduced mortgage fees and tariff exemption on imported goods for treatment, diagnosis or prevention of Covid-19.

THE NATION