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Polling agency chief to be quizzed on banning MPs from helping flood victims
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSION will be summoned for testimony before the House Committee on Corruption and Misconduct over a contentious ban which is currently keeping MPs from helping flood victims in the provinces. House Committee on Corruption and Misconduct chairman Seripisut Temiyavej confirmed today (Oct. 22) he will summon Election Commission secretary-general …
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MPs reminded of being representatives of people, not powers that be
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A PROMINENT ACADEMIC has reminded all MPs of the basic principle that they all have been elected as representatives of the people and not the powers that be who might possibly have the highly questionable electoral system retwisted. Pichai Rattanadilok na Phuket, director of National Institute of Development Administration’s Political …
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Analysis: Prayut will not dissolve House only to dodge no-confidence bidÂ
By Out-Crowd IT WILL BE VERY UNLIKELY for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to dissolve the House of Representatives and call a general election, let alone step down, to avoid a censure debate and no-confidence vote, speculated in an upcoming May or June, no matter what the consequences will be. What was essentially understandable to …
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Pheu Thai MPs visit Thaksin, Yingluck in Singapore
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MANY PHEU THAI MPs are quietly travelling to Singapore to visit former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Those opposition lawmakers and others faithful to Thaksin are paying an informal visit to the ex-premier who flew from Dubai to Singapore to undergo a yearly medical checkup. Accompanying Thaksin to the island republic …
Certain opposition MPs offered handsome payoffs from coalition partner: Thaksin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER PRIME MINISTER Thaksin Shinawatra alleged yesterday (Feb.15) certain opposition MPs have been offered handsome payoffs in exchange for future defection to a certain coalition partner in government. During a Care Talk/Care Clubhouse live streaming programme, the ex-premier said he has been informed of the hush-hush, ongoing effort on the part …
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Novel group of multi-partisan MPs set up
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A NOVEL GROUP OF MULTI-PARTISAN MPs has been formed with primary intent to perform as independent lawmakers who may have earlier been aligned to the coalition government but may from now cast their votes against government legislations. Thai Civilized MP Mongkolkit Suksintharanond confirmed today (Feb.10) that the group, tentatively called …
Deposed MP might be hit with 10-year jail term, ban from politics
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER PALANG PRACHARATH MP SIRA Jenjaka might be put into jail and banned from politics for many years following yesterday’s ruling of the Constitutional Court to deprive him of his MP status, according to Thai Liberal Party leader Seripisut Temiyavej. Seripisut commented that the deposed MP of the ruling party could …
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Five govt lawmakers lose MP status due to previous anti-vote activism
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FIVE LAWMAKERS attached to coalition partners in government were today (Dec. 8) deprived of their MP status by judgement of the Constitutional Court over their outlawed activism conducted against a general election seven years ago. The Constitutional Court ruled the anti-vote activism orchestrated by the five deposed MPs, namely Thaworn …
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Anti-Prayut activists, academics, MPs alerted of hackers on their iPhone
By Thai Newsroom Reporters STREET ACTIVISTS, UNIVERSITY academics and opposition MPs critical of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha have been warned of unidentified hackers trying to access their iPhone data storage systems. House Committee on Political Development, Mass Communication and Public Participation Chairman Natcha Boonchai-insawat said today (Nov. 25) an estimated 20 political activists, academics …
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Gambling den exposed in Transport Minister’s Buriram province
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MAVERICK MP MONGKOLKIT Suksintaranon has retaliated against some police in Buriram where a libel lawsuit was earlier filed against him involving Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob, a native of the northeastern province. Mongkolkit, the leader and lone MP of Thai Civilized Party, has posted on his Facebook page alleging that a …
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Two renegade MPs ousted from Pheu Thai Party
By Thai Newsroom Reporters TWO RENEGADE MPs of Pheu Thai Party were today (Oct. 12) ousted from the opposition party and are yet to join another one instead. Pheu Thai Party’s executive board members and Pheu Thai MPs cast overwhelming votes to oust MP Saranwut Saranket and MP Pornpimol Thammasarn with immediate effect, according …
Chuan: Five MPs given jail terms are all out
PARLIAMENT President Chuan Leepai said today (Feb. 25) that five MPs, among them three ministers, who were sentenced to imprisonment without bail have to immediately vacate their positions, Thai Rath newspaper said. The five of them are Mr. Buddhipongse Punnakanta, former digital economy and society minister, Mr. Nataphol Teepsuwan, former education minister, both MPs of …