PUBLISHED: 04 :51 on January 5, 2024.
The 3.48 trillion bass budget bill for the 2024 fiscal year was defended by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Thursday, who claimed that every aspect of the president’s spending plan was justified.
He was responding to an antagonism representative who called the act a “lame duck” on Wednesday’s first day of the House discussion.
When he was the minister of commerce, I’m confident that was referring to the Ministry of Commerce. And given what he accomplished during his four years in office, Phumtham Wechayachai, the current business secretary, has performed much better than his father, in my opinion, added Mr. Srettha.
Jurin Laksanawisit, a former business minister who is now an antagonism MP and criticized the government’s act on Wednesday, seemed to be the MP on the Democratic Party list.
The 3.48 trillion ringgit would need to be spent within the next five months, according to Mr. Jurin’s response to the jibe from Mr Srettha, who said he described the expenses in this way because it is improbable to become an efficient or effective system for stimulating the economy.
” The ministry successfully inked numerous free trade agreements, perhaps the highest number always,” he said while serving as commerce minister.
Regarding a claim made by Move Forward Party ( MFP ) MPs that the government inherited not only state governing authority from the previous Prayut Chan-o-cha regime but also its rather conservative approach to managing the state budget, Mr. Srettha asserted the current government prioritizes the interests of the public over other considerations.
Regardless of whether a plan was started by previous governments, the government is doing what is best for the people, he said.
Mr. Srettha said it has long been obvious the government may use in response to a comment that he had broken his promise never to use money to fund the 10, 000-baht digital wallet handout.
Some small opposition parties targeted the 5.11 billion baht set aside for the Internal Security Operations Command ( Isoc ) on the second day of the three-day debate on Thursday.
Isoc only performs menial duties, according to Surathin Phichan, a New Democracy Party record MP, who suggested cutting this portion of the funds.