PM may reshuffle his cabinet before year-end

[webfact]

PM may reshuffle his cabinet before year-end

By Thai PBS

 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha may reshuffle his cabinet this month or next to boost public confidence and enhance the stability of his military-led government, according to informed sources in the National Council for Peace and Order.

 

The resignation of Labour Minister Gen Sirichai Distakul on Wednesday (Nov 1) has intensified the need for the shake-up.

 

Gen Sirichai tendered his resignation after Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, chairman of the National Council for Peace and Order used Section 44 to transfer of Employment Department chief Waranont Peetiwan to become deputy permanent secretary for labour.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pm-may-reshuffle-cabinet-year-end/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-11-02

[Chris Lawrence]

Another scare in the ranks.

[Eric Loh]

Get rid of all the generals in ministerial and cabinet positions and bring in experience technocrats. Maybe this right time to bring in a civilian Prime Minister running up to the election. This will bring much confident back to the economy which is struggling and affecting the middle class and poor. 

[Samui Bodoh]

It is called re-shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic.

 

There is nowhere else to go but down. Do you think the Thai people will improve their opinion of you in the next year? Seriously? Why not just leave now?

 

Set an election date and be done with it already!

 

 

[peperobi]

The 1st step in preparation for the next few years government!

[oldhippy]

Is there a reshuffle - roadmap?

 

[baboon]

3 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Get rid of all the generals in ministerial and cabinet positions and bring in experience technocrats. Maybe this right time to bring in a civilian Prime Minister running up to the election. This will bring much confident back to the economy which is struggling and affecting the middle class and poor. 

Err, "running up to the election"..?

[oldhippy]

1 minute ago, baboon said:

Err, "running up to the election"..?

Pelsonally, I have elections evely molning.

[Eric Loh]

50 minutes ago, baboon said:

Err, "running up to the election"..?

I didn’t say when deliberately.

[Lupatria]

Does it mean there are more officials demanding their share?

[Cadbury]

A reshuffle is another way of re-arranging the priorities on the Senior's Distribution List in favour of the his loyal friends

(incompetent or otherwise) and to the disadvantage of those who are in bad odour, or who have embarrassed him, or who are trying to undermine his power as PM. 

[Happyman58]

10 hours ago, Lupatria said:

Does it mean there are more officials demanding their share?

I was just thinking that Maybe a few generals in the background want there slice of the pie also Getting itchy feet The guy who resigned Dont worry he wanted to get out retire gracefully I am sure he checked his bank accounts to see if they were in order before he did retire Guess it is there version of the pension

[Ossy]

 

17 hours ago, webfact said:

PM may reshuffle his cabinet before year-end

By Thai PBS

 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha may reshuffle his cabinet this month or next to boost public confidence and enhance the stability of his military-led government, according to informed sources in the National Council for Peace and Order.

The resignation of Labour Minister Gen Sirichai Distakul on Wednesday (Nov 1) has intensified the need for the shake-up.

Gen Sirichai tendered his resignation after Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, chairman of the National Council for Peace and Order used Section 44 to transfer of Employment Department chief Waranont Peetiwan to become deputy permanent secretary for labour.

 

Man, does Prayut look worried? I should say so. And how good it is to see him without his sickly smirk. At long last, he's realised that there are other people on this planet and that, just maybe, it would be a good idea to listen to them.

 

Most unlike P1, he said the government must improve its economic performance and build up public confidence in the government. He suggested that technocrats should be brought in to replace some ministers who under-performed. A Government House source said the reshuffle would involve 5-6 positions in a few ministries, including the Agriculture and Cooperatives and Interior ministries. The Interior Ministry, of course, is the one that 'looks after' the Royal Thai Police force . . . now, there's an area for improvement, if ever there was one.

 

The Thai PBS piece, typically, gives little if any solid indication of the most likely Ministerial changes; one minute [quoting Tawee Surarittikul, a lecturer at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University’s faculty of political science] citing economic and social sectors as two areas in need of improvements whereas the security sector is likely to be intact and, next minute, quoting Somchai Pakapasvivat, an independent political analyst, suggesting that education and IT are two areas which need to be improved.

 

So, to take all this conjecture with the tonne of salt that we've become accustomed to protecting ourselves with, the areas seen to be most clearly under-performing, are the Interior Ministry, Economic and Social sectors, as well as Education and IT, whilst the Security sector, recently strengthened of course by three submarines, armoured personnel carriers and rocket-launchers, is seen to be OK . . . phew, that's a relief!

 

And how's this for a closing paragraph that leaves us all as clueless as we were before the piece opened. Talk about a contradiction . . . this one has to take the biscuit. "The general opinion of political observers is that, if there is a cabinet reshuffle, the focus should be on economic performance which needs to be improved.  However, they believe the shake-up, if it actually happens, will not much affect the economic team of Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak as their performance are acceptable."

 

Is this the best that Thai PBS can do? Like everything else in LOS, it'll have to do . . . getting near lunchtime, probably. Knowing how much you all like a bit of colour splashing around T-VS, I've gone doolally with it, today, so angry does all this empty talk make me. You get my scheme, I'm sure: red for bad, green for good, grey for uncertain, blue for doubt and purple for something to really shout about.

 

And, boy, don't those guys look so delightfully pissed-off and not before time . . . IMHO

[Ossy]

17 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Get rid of all the generals in ministerial and cabinet positions and bring in experience technocrats. Maybe this right time to bring in a civilian Prime Minister running up to the election. This will bring much confident back to the economy which is struggling and affecting the middle class and poor. 

Careful, EL . . . don't go tellin' 'im too much or the Junta-Techs will be winning next year's election. Yes, seriously.

[Eric Loh]

1 hour ago, Ossy said:

Careful, EL . . . don't go tellin' 'im too much or the Junta-Techs will be winning next year's election. Yes, seriously.

Not likely mate. Technocrat is a proponent, adherent or supporter of technocracy. Junta technocrat is pure oxymoronic. The junta decision making are simple not on the basis of technological knowledge which they have none except militarism. But I get your sarcasm.