Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra provides denied brokering the secret deal with the particular ruling Palang Pracharath Party and the major opposition Pheu Thailänder Party to reportedly form a coalition government after the next common election.
Thaksin, now in self-imposed exile overseas, was speaking throughout a CareTalk X programme for the Clubhouse audio-based social networking application on Tuesday.
He denied talking to, let alone entering into a deal with PPRP leader Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, who is also deputy prime ressortchef (umgangssprachlich).
Thaksin, who is widely known to keep close ties with Pheu Thai, was adamant he had nothing to get from any such cope with the PPRP. “I don’t know how that would benefit me, inch he said.
“I haven’t talked to Pom [Gen Prawit’s nickname] for god knows how long. I have no clue if Pom still remembers me. The great old days between us are long gone, ” he added.
The secret deal rumour, according to Thaksin, was floated by a certain doctor politician.
It was reported the deal was being struck on the back of speculation that will Pheu Thai would emerge victorious in the next election and team up with the PPRP in forming a government with sufficient MPs between them to secure a parliamentary majority.
The rumour had stemmed in the list-MP calculation method being reverted in order to using 100 since the divisor which was supported by the PPRP plus Pheu Thai, the country’s two biggest parties. The 100 divisor is preferred by them because it makes it easier to allow them to win constituency and party list chairs.
Thaksin said it was a sheer coincidence that will both the PPRP plus Pheu Thai were on the same page within the 100 divisor.
Meanwhile, Dr Rawee Matchamadol, chief of the New Palang Dharma Party, said everyone was aware the particular “doctor politician” known him.
However , he taken care of that the motive of several PPRP MPs who had been absent from Monday’s joint sitting has been questionable.