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Minister Chatumongol ‘has quit his party, not Cabinet’

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Jun 17. 2020MR Chatumongol Sonakul

By THE NATION

Labour Minister MR Chatumongol Sonakul has quit the Action Coalition for Thailand Party but has not resigned as minister yet, party spokesman Khetrat Laothammathas said on Tuesday (June 16).

“The minister did not reveal the reason for resigning from the party,” he added. “Party executives insisted that there was no dispute or conflict within the party even during the Covid-19 crisis, and all members were doing their duties diligently.”

Khetrat added that the party will hold a meeting to elect a new board of directors on July 5. “We will also notify Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha of the change within the party, as the minister’s place in the Cabinet is still under the party’s quota,” he said.

Chatumongol started his career in the civil service through the Finance Ministry, initially serving as director-general of the Tax Department. Later he rose to become the ministry’s deputy permanent secretary from 1995-1997. Chatumongkol was appointed governor of the Bank of Thailand (BOT) in 1998 but he was dismissed in 2001 by the newly elected Thai Rak Thai-led government. When the Democrat Party formed the government in 2008, it appointed Chatumongkol as chairman of the board of the BOT. He joined the former People’s Democratic Reform Committee leader Suthep Thaugsuban in forming the Action Coalition for Thailand Party in 2018 and had served as the leader since then.

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Govt delaying local polls to cement its grip on country: Pheu Thai

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Jun 16. 2020Anusorn Eiamsaard

By The Nation

The core opposition Pheu Thai Party is pressuring the government to declare a date for local elections, after six years without polls since the 2014 coup.

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam declared recently that local election plans were now facing financial obstacle due to the Covid-19 crisis.

Pheu Thai spokesperson Anusorn Eiamsaard hit back by saying it was pointless for Wissanu to use Covid-19 issues to cover for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, who had already said that the readiness of the Interior Ministry and Election Commission were the main factors in deciding whether the polls should ahead.

A budget of Bt800 million has been earmarked for the local elections, which the Constitution decrees are important in distributing power to local areas, said Anusorn.

However, the government has tried to suspend political activity in the country for the past six years to make local governments weaker and boost the power of the Defence Ministry, he added.

“Prayut Chan-o-cha should be clear on when the local elections will be organized, because this [suspension] is affecting the management, the national budget and power distribution,” Anusorn said. “This attempt to freeze the country will destroy its people,” he added.

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EC has Bt800 million ready for local elections, awaiting govt go-ahead

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Jun 16. 2020Jarungwit Phumma (File Photo)

By THE NATION

The Election Commission of Thailand revealed that it has earmarked Bt800 million for local elections nationwide and is ready to organise them if it receives the green light from the government.

“The commission had received a Bt800-million local election budget for fiscal year 2020,” secretary-general Pol Colonel Jarungwit Phumma said yesterday (June 15). “This money will be used for the election once the government announces it.”

Earlier yesterday, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said that “if possible, we will hold local elections this year, so we would like to ask people to wait for a while”. He made the statement while saying the budget for local elections has been used to fight Covid-19.

The virus crisis has forced the government to postpone arrangements for the elections, which are usually held within a year of a new administration coming to power. No local elections have been held for the past six years under Prayut’s rule.

“The Election Commission has reached a certain level of readiness in organising local elections, we are currently training staff,” Jarungwit added. “As for the zoning of local administration organisations, it is in the counterchecking stage and will soon be announced in the Royal Gazette.”

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People’s Party discusses pro-democracy activist’s disappearance

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Jun 15. 2020

By The Nation

The People’s Party for Freedom held a meeting to discuss the mysterious disappearance of Thai pro-democracy activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit in Cambodia.

Thapanee Eadsrichai, a reporter who joined the discussion on Saturday at the 14 October ’73 Memorial auditorium, said the House of Representatives had allowed people to talk about thorny social and political issues more now than in the period during the coup, which is very important because when the government is pressured by society on a particular issue, they should respond instead of keeping quiet.

Singer Pachara Thammon said people seemed to be more aware of the abduction of political activists than before, which was a good sign.

Writer and documentary producer Wannasingh Prasertkul said public figures or celebrities should not be forced to speak on the matter of Wanchalearm’s disappearance since some of them did not have full knowledge of the incident and they should talk about the issue of their own free will.

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Opposition’s oversight of government dented by dissolution of Future Forward

Politics

Jun 14. 2020

By The Nation

The dissolution of the Future Forward Party has hit the opposition hard, severely undermining its ability to scrutinise the government’s performance.

Leader of the ruling coalition, Palang Pracharat Party, is now taking full control of the House of Representatives, especially with the exits of two fierce critics — former Future Forward members Piyabutr Saengkanokkul and Pongsakorn Rodchompoo.

Piyabutr was chairman of the Committee on Justice and Human Rights, and Pongsakorn was chairman of the Committee on National Security, Border Affairs, National Strategy, and National Reform.

The move by 10 former Future Forward members to another party has also changed the quota of each committee’s chairperson. Future Forward’s successor Move Forward Party (MFP) can have only four seats but the party must sacrifice seats on two committees of the House in order to regain chairperson positions on the Committee on Justice and Human Rights and the Committee on National Security, Border Affairs, National Strategy, and National Reform.

The MFP does not want to lose the Committee on Justice and Human Rights since it is a means to scrutinise the government and other organisations and there is a possibility that Palang Pracharat will try to snatch it from them by proposing the name of Sira Jenjaka to head the committee.

All eyes also are on the fight of the Thai Liberal Party, which hopes to keep the reins of the House Committee on Corruption under the supervision of party leader Pol Gen Sereepisuth Temeeyaves. Palang Pracharat has proposed government chief whip Wirat Rattanaset to take his place.

Palang Pracharat now has nine chairpersons heading 15 of the committees, putting the opposition in a difficult situation because even though the chair position remains the same, it will be hard to scrutinise the government with only six votes.

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