A new Shinawatra weekend getaway to Khao Yai was anything but secret, and it raised questions about why deputy prime minister and interior secretary Anutin Charnvirakul paid a surprise visit to the community.
From the everyday get-together, images were released, which were available to wild understanding and speculation.
The Bhumjaithai chief crooning along as Ronan Keating sang their favorite song, When You Declare Nothing At All, by Mr. Anutin and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra while Mr. Anutin and his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra played golf and the two played golf.
According to watchers who read the text, the surrender was intended to avert conflict between Bhumjaithai and Pheu Thai.
Pheu Thai may ill-afford to drop the political support of Bhumjaithai which commands 71 chairs, the third-biggest celebration.
The two events were beginning to experience growing rifts between them after nearly a year of being partnership friends.
The Khao Yai surrender, but, was thought to be a charge to heal the rift. The solution might be intelligent animal buying, which will lead to the development of a power-sharing strategy that raises the stakes for both parties ‘ chances of winning re-election in the upcoming election.
Premier Srettha Thavisin, the leader of the two parties, testified to France 24, a state-owned media outlet, in which he revealed the government’s plans to halt cannabis usage, which was decriminalized in 2022.
According to reports, he reportedly argued that cannabis should be redefined as a opiate because it would benefit society more than the benefits of legalizing it for medical use and study.
Common health minister Somsak Thepsutin has since followed up the president’s reclassification plan by actively and publicly urging the drug’s use to be reinstated as a narcotic before the end of the year.
However, the program surprised Mr Somsak’s father, Dr Cholnan Srikaew, who had declared while he was open health minister that the hemp legalisation matter was too far along to turn back the clock.
Since legalization was one of its main policies that it successfully passed under the previous Prayut Chan-o-cha management, Bhumjaithai refused to accept the proposal as the proposed relisting framework was being worked on.
Justice Minister Thawee Sodsong, who is the party’s head, first suggested the re-criminalization program. He claims to be extremely close to Pheu Thai. Not long after Mr. Srettha made the announcement that the government was working to reinstate marijuana on the drug record.
Mr. Somsak also rose to the occasion by laying out new legalization measures for hemp.
But, a big stumbling block is approaching. The Office of the Narcotics Control Board ( ONCB) must approve the proposed re-classification of cannabis as an illicit substance, as it did before the previous administration when the plant was made non-criminal.
This time, though, the ONCB is not chaired by the prime minister but by Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga, who also leads the United Thai Nation ( UTN) Party.
According to Mr. Pirapan, Mr. Pirapan apparently pointed out the contradictions in the ONCB’s approach to hemp relisting.
The lieutenant elite even pointed out that there was no compelling reason to impose the law on cannabis.
Next came the Khao Yai surrender, which Mr Srettha did not attend. What was said between Mr. Anutin and Thaksin, who both enjoy extensive influence over Pheu Thai and are regarded by party greats during their pleasant round of golf, caught the attention.
Mr. Srettha ordered a draft bill to regulate cannabis use for clinical and research and development reasons, which indicated that the plant may be removed from the narcotics record, scarcely two days after the surrender.
According to reports, Mr. Srettha and Mr. Anutin had convened a meeting to discuss the re-criminalization of hemp.
An spectator claimed that Pheu Thai had no choice but to bring the idea of bringing marijuana back on the cocaine record.
To pass the Digital Wallet handbook system, the ruling party needs the full support of coalition partners. Bhumjaithai had allegedly precise revenge by rejecting the wallet expenses and leaving the government if Pheu Thai had used cannabis as part of its “reckless” strategy.
Without Bhumjaithai, the budget bill would not have seen the light of morning.
After being identified as the “blue group,” with which a remarkable 150 of the 200 Senate people have maintained close relationships, Bhumjaithai has grown in power, according to the spectator.
The Senate speech and two assistant speakers ‘ election on July 23 provided some plausible evidence of these connections. Mongkol Surasajja, a former chancellor of Buri Ram, which is Bhumjaithai’s social homeland, raked in an amazing 159 vote to become the speaker.
There could be problems brewing
Despite the Constitutional Court’s decision on Srettha Thavisin’s fate on Wednesday, observers predict that tension between the ruling Pheu Thai Party and its coalition partner, the Palang Pracharath Party ( PPRP ), will increase.
Prawit: ‘ Infuriates’ Thaksin
The de facto leader of Pheu Thai, Paroled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, is said to be upset with PPRP head Gen Prawit Wongsuwon and claims that the” the standard of Baan Pa” is the author of the complaint against Mr. Srettha that was filed by former 40 lawmakers.
” Baan Pa” refers to the Five Provinces Bordering Forest Preservation Foundation, located at the 1st Infantry Regiment in Bangkok’s Phaya Thai area. The base is believed to be Gen Prawit’s illegal business.
After the Constitutional Court granted the complaint against Mr. Srettha, Thaksin questioned the former legislators ‘ intentions. The ex-premier was also quoted as saying:” If there’s any trouble, it comes from someone in the forest. But it does n’t involve me. It involves the state”.
In the most recent cabinet reshuffle, Pichit Chuenban was appointed as the prime minister’s office chancellor, which is in line with the complaint against Mr. Srettha.
Because he served time in prison for contempt of court in 2008 for attempting to reward Supreme Court officers in a contentious land dispute involving Thaksin, the 40 past lawmakers claimed that Mr. Pichit was unfit to serve in the cupboard.
According to Section 170( 4 ) and(5 ) of the charter, which deals with the ethics of cabinet ministers, the Constitutional Court is being asked to decide whether Mr. Srettha should be removed from office. When Pichit was appointed as chancellor, the prime minister is supposed to had been aware of his dubious history.
The ex-senators ‘ complaint targeting Mr Srettha is suspected to be a walk to change the prime minister, which would provide Gen Prawit, the PPRP’s primary governmental prospect, a picture at the top article.
Gen. Prawit is also said to have enraged Thaksin even more after taking PPRP part Wan Ubumrung, the brother of Pheu Thai brave, under his wing. Mr. Wan left the ruling party after party executives in Pathum Thani’s new local election rebuked him for talking to an opponent of his group.
The connection between the Ubumrung community and the Shinawatras has turned nasty, with Pheu Thai head Paetongtarn, Thaksin’s child, having removed Pol Capt Chalerm from the group’s MP chatroom in the Line program.
Pol Capt Chalerm’s text message stating that he was moving to a new party led to Ms Paetontarn’s opinion, which led to her being kicked out of the group discussion. His subsequent messages had made other MPs feel uncomfortable, she said, but did not elaborate.
According to recent rumors, the PPRP could be expelled from the coalition, with some analysts claiming that the purge’s target is more likely to be a group under Gen Prawit’s control.
The PRRP is said to comprise two camps led by the party leader, who controls 13 MPs, and PPRP secretary-general and Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thamanat Prompow, who commands the remaining 27 lawmakers.
Capt Thamanat is said to have aligned himself more with the ruling party than Gen Prawit, so between the two camps, the axe is more likely to fall on Gen Prawit’s group, according to observers.
Even if Gen Prawit’s group is shown the door, the coalition will still hold a solid 301 votes, which is a strong majority. However, a group of 21 Democrat MPs led by party leader Chalermcha Sri-on is waiting in the wings to strengthen the government.
In the event of the Democrats replacing Gen Prawit’s group, the Pheu Thai-led government will have 322 votes from 12 political parties, with some political observers already giving it a nickname: the” Ruam Chart” ( integrated nation ) government.
If some MPs from the now-dissolved Move Forward Party decide to join government parties, the opposition camp will shrink from 185 to 164. This number could shrink even further.
However, Thanaporn Sriyakul, the director of the PPAI, claimed that a true” Ruam Chart” government only will emerge when Capt. Thamanat’s camp is forced to form a new political party within the next 30 days.
It is highly likely that they will join the Pheu Thai Party and fulfill the ruling party’s big boss’s request if they have the guts to ask Gen. Prawit to expel them, he said.
In order for the ruling party to have more bargaining power over other parties, Mr. Thanaporn claims that one of Thaksin’s goals is to expand Pheu Thai’s influence over the MFP.
The number of MPs who were previously associated with the MFP has decreased to 142 in comparison to Pheu Thai’s 141 following the court’s decision on Wednesday to dissolve it.
Former MFP executives were exempt from politics for ten years as a result of the Constitutional Court’s decision to support the dissolution of the organization.