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Chaiwat Satha- Anand, a observed political scientist and intellectual behind a solution to the conflict in the far South, died monday. He was 69.

The scientific gained notoriety for suggesting a peaceful end to the separatist conflict in the southern border provinces. In 2005, he likewise served on the National Reconciliation Commission, which was tasked with bringing about peace in the far north.

In addition to serving as chairpersons in different peace-promoting initiatives, Chaiwat also served as the director of a republic development foundation that distributed numerous top-notch books and journals for scientists both in Thailand and abroad.

Chaiwat, who was born on January 25, 1955, received a PhD in social knowledge from Manoa University.

He was appointed Thammasat University’s University of Political Science’s brain of politics and government, and he was a recipient of the Sriburapha honor in 2012 as well as the excellent political science researcher award.

Social science professor Chalidaporn Songsamphan, who posted the information on her Twitter account yesterday, claims that spiritual rites will be observed starting today at the Haroon shrine in Bangkok’s Bang Rak district.

Thaksin Shinawatra is suing Thai Pakdee Party chief Warong Dechgitvigrom for 100 million ringgit for a supposedly disparaging remark that linked the former prime minister to a 2 billion baht pay.

Winyat Chartmontree, Thaksin’s attorney, filed the suit monday.

After Dr. Warong addressed a protest at Chamai Maruchet Bridge near Government House and alleged reward, he turned to Facebook and TikTok.

The subject of the hand pointing was very evident, according to Mr. Winyat, even though Dr. Warong did not name Thaksin by name.

On June 12, Dr. Warong announced on his Instagram page that a casino owner in Hong Kong had paid 2 billion baht to free up a prominent political figure facing a severe crime charge.

A mature justice national allegedly visited Hong Kong as a member of the organization that organized the reward in May, according to Dr. Warong.

He added that the casino operator agreed to pay the reward in exchange for the right to operate a casino in Thailand if and when it becomes legal in this country.

The Court of Justice made the claim that there was a high-ranking fairness established in the judicial commission (JC) on June 17 public. The JC has requested that the Supreme Court think about appointing a fact-finding section to examine it.

Mr. Winyat disputed yesterday that the petition was intended to deceive Dr. Warong and that it was Thaksin’s legitimate course of action to protect his name.

Thaksin is demanding 100 million ringgit in problems. Sept. 30 is the court’s scheduled filing deadline for lawsuits.

The specific House committee vetting the budget bill’s version in a week or two is likely to put some of the 2025 federal funds aside for consideration, according to deputy finance minister Julapun Amornvivat.

Mr Julapan, who serves as vice president of the 72- representative committee, was commenting on the commission’s judgement on Wednesday to” dismiss” its scrutiny of a request for 152.7 billion baht to been sourced from the budget’s central fund to finance part of the premier digital wallet programme.

The panel has adjourned the requested deliberation pending further information, according to a social media post by Move Forward Party ( MPF ) list-member and committee member Sirikanya Tansakul.

She claimed that the demand for 152.7 billion baht is simply attached to a one-page document, and that the budget must be funded by the central fund because no agency has yet been appointed to supervise it.

Mr. Julapun, who presided over the meeting on June 26, acknowledged monday that the budget ask lacked information and that a Finance Ministry agent was no well-equipped to respond to the questions.

According to him, the agent was given the task of explaining the situation on behalf of the fund lasting secretary, who was required to meet with the prime minister.

He claimed that despite having information and being a deputy finance minister in charge of the modern budget plan, he had it, and that he had decided to ask the Finance Ministry to provide it with all the information.

” I’m even an MP, but I have to honor the committee members. Having complete information is also important, so we wo n’t proceed until it’s clear. So I asked the finance permanent secretary]Lavaron Sangsnit ] to answer the questions in person and provide complete information”, he said.

No specific date will be given for the council’s consideration of this portion of the budget, according to Mr. Julapan, but it should be in one or two days.

He added that if the data provided is incomplete, it would be customary for the House committee to halt the discussion of any product. He even expressed confidence that the flyer program may operate as planned.

Yesterday, the Customs Department announced its new accomplishments, with three significant narcotics cases brought to light.

These, according to deputy finance minister Julapun Amornvivat, were the result of cooperation between the Customs Department and the Airport Interdiction Task Force ( AITF), a joint force made up of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board ( ONCB) and the Narcotics Suppression Bureau ( NSB ).

Theeraj Athanavanich, producer- standard of the Customers Department, said the first imprisonment was on June 21 when a North American girl, whose identity was withheld, departed from Nairobi, Kenya, for Suvarnabhumi airport.

Officers discovered that she had smuggled 415 grams of heroin by ingesting 35 packs of the substance. Its value, according to authorities, is estimated to be around 1.2 million baht. She was arrested at the airports.

The next case was discovered on June 22 when an AITF group discovered methamphetamine in a package leaving for South Korea at the Suvarnabhumi Post Office.

Inside the piece registered as” snack, milk powders” were 13, 850 meth tablets hidden in two milk flour boxes with a street value of 415, 500 baht.

The second incident occurred on Wednesday when a Thai person was detained before boardboarding a plane from Suvarnabhumi aircraft to Male in the Islands. Her identity was also withheld.

Two taped vinyl bags containing two kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, or ya snow, were discovered by the police inside two carry-on bags. The drug’s market price was roughly 2 million ringgit.

According to Mr. Julapun, all three suspects were charged with bringing narcotics into the country and smuggling them, as well as with breaking the Customs Act BE 2560 ( 2017 ).

This month, the Customs Department made arrests in three different scenarios of smuggling dried cannabis flowers at the aircraft. Authorities seized 291.1kg of flowers with a total price of 10.8 million ringgit, he said.

Additionally, the office seized 1,750-gram improper cigarettes valued at more than 30.9 million ringgit. On the import and export statements, the product was labeled as having” steering hands.” It was sent from the United Arab Emirates, and the place was Australia.

100 losing individuals to record a grievance

A winning participant in the Senate vote claimed that there was voter adjustment in the election campaign.

More than 100 candidates who lost in the election will file a complaint with the Election Commission (EC ) to request it to investigate alleged vote rigging, according to Nanthana Nanthawarophas, a senator-elect from a media professional group.

She noted that the applicants with the most seats were seen seated in groups and obstructing communication with another applicants during election.

She claimed that some organizations conspired to rig the effects of some of their votes in order to support a certain group of individuals.

She said,” The EC may look into whether political events were responsible for it.”

Ms. Nanthana stated that she did not want the coupmakers ‘ replacement Senate to remain in office any more because she did not want the EC to completely deny the allegations of cooperation and voting manipulation.

However, she said, the polling place should look into the situation and take legal action against those responsible for alleged anomalies.

She also suggested that people should be able to choose lawmakers in upcoming Senate primaries because it was too complicated and contaminated by fraud allegations.

Somchai Swangkarn, a custodian senator, claimed in a Facebook post that many people had been hired to vote for candidates supported by specific interest groups at the district, municipal, and national levels.

Some individuals running at the neighborhood level were paid 4, 000 ringgit each for membership fees, health inspection fees, travel charges, and image costs, he wrote.

On the eve of the provincial-level poll, Mr. Somchai wrote, they would get another 2, 000 to 3, 000 ringgit to stay in hotels in the provinces.

” But as it happened, these people did not vote for themselves, but rather, almost universally, voted for certain individuals who each ended up among the top 10 getting selected as lawmakers in each of the 20 groupings”, he wrote.

Even though Angkhana Neelapaijit, a former member of the National Human Rights Commission, was a winning member representing a civic society organization, she also managed to win fewer votes than some less well-known winning individuals from Buri Ram, according to Internet Dialogue on Law Transformation (iLaw ) director Yingcheep Atchanont, who also posted on Twitter.

One member from Buri Ram was a previous school director, and the other participant was a previous community health volunteer, both of whom were from Buri Ram, Mr. Yingcheep said.

” They are very high on the list of the top ten with the most vote,” they claim. They gained more seats than Mr Angkhana, who is No. 9 and lower on the list”.

Some electorates appear to be affiliated with the second-largest partnership group.

More than a few of the 200 senators- elect evidently had social group affiliations, notably with the Bhumjaithai Party, a review of the illegal results of Wednesday’s vote shows.

The last inter-group vote for the candidates took place on Wednesday at 8 p.m., and the count ran for an extended period of time until 4.52 a.m. yesterday. A list of 200 legislators- choose ( in Thai ) and 100 prospective competitors has since been released.

Substitutes may be legislators if any elective senators are later disqualified.

The Election Commission stated that it anticipated the release of the standard benefits on July 3, adding that studies into problems and anomalies would definitely want to continue after that time.

Nipon Ekwanit, a previous Phuket MP member from the Bhumjaithai Party, Pibul at Haruehanprakan, a former advisor to a previous hospitality and sporting minister from the same group, and Dr. Praphon Tangsrikiatkul, who served as a vice chancellor under Bhumjaithai head Anutin Charnvirakul while he was health minister in the previous government, are among the electorates on the list.

Another senator- elect was former 4th Army chief Gen Kriangkrai Srirak, chief adviser to Mr Anutin, who is the Interior Minister in the current administration.

Buri Ram, the seat of Bhumjaithai godfather Newin Chidchob, ranked first among all provinces with 14 elected senators, followed by Bangkok with nine, Surin and Ayuthaya with seven each, and Ang Thong, Satun, and Songkhla with six each, according to a Facebook post from Internet Dialogue on Law Reform (iLaw ).

Bhumjaithai is particularly strong in some of the Central and lower Northeast provinces. iLaw noted that in 12 provinces that produced a total of 80 new senators, Bhumjaithai also has MPs.

Other senators- elect include human rights activist Angkhana Neelapaijit, Chulalongkorn University economics lecturer Lae Dilokvidhyarat, former Ang Thong governor Weerasak Wichitsaengsri, former Si Sa Ket governor Thawat Suraban, and Mongkol Surasajja, who served as director- general of the Department of Provincial Administration.

Only a select few civil sector representatives, according to Ms. Angkhana.

Former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, a brother- in- law of former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, was not among those elected. Many political observers had anticipated that he would become the speaker of the Senate. ( Story continues below )

Former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, a brother- in- law of former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, is not among those elected. ( Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill )

Angkhana Neelapaijit, a former head of the National Human Rights Commission, was among the prominent activists who won a Senate seat. ( Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill )

The new Senate will have 200 representatives from 20 different professions, replacing the 250 coup-appointed senators whose terms ended on May 10 and whose terms ended.

Unlike their predecessors, the new senators will not be empowered to co- elect a prime minister. They will participate in the passage of laws and constitutional amendments. They will also be responsible for appointing independent organizations and monitoring the executive branch’s performance.

Stithorn Thananithichot, director of the Office of Innovation for Democracy at King Prajadhipok’s Institute, told the Bangkok Post that many of the newly elected senators are affiliated with Bhumjaithai.

” In other words, the old power group still holds sway over the new Senate”, he said.

He asserted that the newly created Senate would not be unlike the junta-appointed chamber.

” The majority of the new Senate is governed by those who have ties to the previous Prayut Chan-o-cha government. They have a long history of belonging to the former power group, he claimed.

Move Forward Party leader Chaithawat Tulathon demanded on Thursday that all 200 winning candidates be endorsed first and disqualified later if there is proof of any poll fraud.

Any delay in the approval process will make it more likely that the caretaker Senate will serve, he noted.

The 2013-2014 Bangkok Shutdown demonstrations and coworkers will file an appeal with the Supreme Court.

Suthep Thaugsuban’s lawyer Sawat Charoenpol claims that the court of appeal on Thursday ordered his prison sentence commuted from five years to one year without a suspended jail sentence. He was found guilty of leading the People’s Democratic Reform Committee ( PDRC ) protest in the Bangkok Shutdown operation in early 2014.

The Criminal Court read the decision on Thursday. The public prosecutor indicted 39 PDRC key members, led by&nbsp, Mr Suthep, on a ship of charges including engaging to commit crime, violence, inciting people to join them in the opposition, unlawful assemblage and causing public disturbances. &nbsp,

The team’s Bangkok Shutdown activity occurred during the PDRC’s rally in the capital in early 2014, and some polling stations were obstructed during the general election on February 2, 2014, which was later declared invalid by the Constitutional Court. &nbsp,

The lower jury found 26 PDRC key people and leaders not guilty of trying to erode the constitutional monarchy, which is considered crime, on February 24, 2021. Additionally, the plaintiffs did not engage in violence. &nbsp,

But, they were judged innocent of provocation, unlawful assembly and other costs, according to the jury. They had persuaded the general public to abandon their jobs and visit the Bangkok Shutdown activity. The plaintiffs were given a five-year suspension order to have their social privileges suspended. &nbsp, &nbsp,

The remaining accused lost the lower court decision although they were determined to have been individuals, no leaders, of the opposition, who committed minor offences and deserved a chance to redeem themselves. Their varying prison sentences were given a two-year suspension by the judge. &nbsp,

Mr. Sawat reported on Thursday that the Appeal Court had commuted the prison sentences for the 26 PDRC’s base members and leaders. &nbsp,

Mr. Suthep said when he arrived at the court on Thursday that he complied with the judge’s order and that he had prepared in case he had to spend some time in jail following Thursday’s ruling.

Following the reading of the decision, Mr. Suthep and 13 different plaintiffs filed appeals with the Supreme Court. According to reports, Mr. Suthep was released on bail.