PM to go live over govt record

Additionally, Paetongtarn may record goals in a TV spot.

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra

On Thursday, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will deliver a significant government address in which she will describe her cabinet’s accomplishments over the past three months and argue that the government’s flagship policies will need to be implemented.

The PM wrote in a blog made on Facebook and repeated on X on Sunday that these policies include the online cash handout plan, the village fund, and several monetary stimulus measures.

Titled” 2025 Inspiring Thais: A True Possibility”, the public address will start at 10am live on NBT2HD and get streamed on the state-run Television network’s Facebook page as well, she said.

The National Broadcasting Services of Thailand ( NBT)’s ( NBT ) headquarters is located on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, according to the PM, which will host the event, which will have around 500 guests there.

Cabinet ministers, high-level governmental officials, department heads, department heads, municipal governors, armed forces ‘ leaders, the federal police commander, governmental spokespeople and heads of state enterprises are expected to be among the attendees.

In contrast, a new opinion poll conducted by Suan Dusit Poll found that most Thais are now anticipating receiving more money donations and seeing more measures to reduce their living expenses, which is frequently viewed as a custom of receiving New Year’s gifts from the state.

According to Pornpan Buathong, chairman of the Suan Dusit Poll, these results show how seriously the majority of people are being impacted by the worldwide economic situation.

According to Asst. Prof. Unchalee Rattana, a professor in political science at Suan Dusit University,” the influence of the sluggish economy is now halting holiday spending,” according to the survey’s findings that only 56.02 % of surveys respondents intended to go over the new year.

In another growth, Chousak Sirinil, the head of the Pheu Thai Party, stated that the party is then prepared to file its political asylum expenses as soon as the House of Representatives program resumes on December 12.

According to him, the nature of its expenses is that all those charged with politically motivated crimes from 2005 to then qualify for amnesty.

A proper asylum council will make the final decision in each occasion, and there will also be a detailed list of crimes that this amnesty bill will apply to when it becomes law, he said. Who does make up the commission has not yet been fully identified.

In order to facilitate passage of the democratic election expenses, Pheu Thai has resolved to reaffirm the Lower House’s requirement, which only needs a simple bulk, prior to the following election.

The Lower House will need to have the bill suspended for 180 days before the Senate is reject adjustments made by the Senate.

A shared House-Senate committee was formed to resolve their differences in a bid to build unity over a contentious subject that the bill passed in August.

Before any further steps toward creating a new charter writing assembly is started, he said, the government, the opposition, and Senate whip are being encouraged to find common ground.

A meeting of the three whips is scheduled for Friday, according to House Speaker Wan Muhammad Noor Matha, to discuss when the charter-amending bills should be deliberated.

However, not all 17 bills will be deliberated, with only those deemed urgent given a priority, he said.

However, a survey conducted by Nida Poll found only a small percentage of respondents who back charter amendments ( 27.63 % ) and those who don’t think it’s necessary ( 27.2 % ).

More importantly, the vast majority of these respondents ( 78.97 % ) said if the charter is to be amended, only certain parts of it should be touched, not the entire document, according to the poll conducted on Dec 2-3 on 1, 310 people in all regions of the country.