Phalang Pracharat takes time out

By The Nation

 

 

PHALANG PRACHARAT Party politicians will revisit Cabinet portfolio offers, after key potential partner parties expressed discomfort at the involvement of the junta chief in deciding ministry posts.
 

Sources said this time politicians would come up with new offers, with limited interference from the current powers that be, and would take into account each party’s policies as |well as the stability of the future |government, before returning for talks with potential coalition |partners.

 

The development follows days of confusion on forming a new coalition government after the pro-junta bloc was unable to close the deal, despite progress in Phalang Pracharat emerging as the coalition leader.

 

The deal also hit repeated snags due to discord over the allocation of certain ministerial portfolios among the allies.

 

The deals were expected to be sealed before the selection of the prime minister, which Deputy PM Wissanu Krea-ngam said could take place next Tuesday. However, it has been made clear that junta chief General Prayut Chan-o-cha would have the final say on the Cabinet line-up.

 

The current negotiations showed Phalang Pracharat losing most of the economy-related ministries to the medium-sized Democrat and Bhumjaithai parties. However, the party remained wary of their impact on the next election, so it decided to take a step back and reconsider the allotments.

 

However, if agreements are not reached at this stage, Phalang Pracharat could opt to resume talks on setting up a government after the selection of the prime minister.

 

The party has 116 MPs and has secured the support of 10 minor parties that have one MP each. Those numbers, along with the backing of 250 junta-appointed senators, seems to give Phalang Pracharat enough votes to reinstall Prayut as head of the government.

 

The situation has confirmed political analysts’ predictions that smaller parties would have significant bargaining power in the government formation. 

 

Because the electoral system does not allow any party to emerge an outright winner with enough seats to form a government on its own, it had been foreseen that medium-sized parties would hold power as kingmakers, as has been seen in recent days.

 

In a related development, the anti-junta bloc led by Pheu Thai and Future Forward parties were considering nominating candidates for PM.

 

There is a possibility that Pheu Thai might nominate its popular figure Chadchart Sittipunt for PM after its de facto leader Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan had announced that she was ready to sacrifice the position in order to stop the return of the junta to power.

 

However, party spokesperson Laddawan Wongsriwong said yesterday that Pheu Thai had put off the meeting until a date is set for the selection of the PM.

 

Meanwhile, Future Forward spokesperson Pannika Wanich said the party wanted to nominate its leader, Thanathorn Juangroong-ruangkit, to take the top government job.

 

Though Thanathorn has been suspended from functioning as an MP by the Constitutional Court until a ruling on the case against him over alleged media shareholding, Pannika said Thanathorn has the qualification to be the PM and is also suited for the position because of the public’s trust.

 

However, Pannika said, discussions within the bloc should be restarted to settle the issue in case parties held different views.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30370307

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-05-31

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Pigs fighting at the trough.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

key potential partner parties expressed discomfort at the involvement of the junta chief in deciding ministry posts.

get used to that; have fun dealing with a military general turned megalomaniac

2 hours ago, webfact said:

it has been made clear that junta chief General Prayut Chan-o-cha would have the final say on the Cabinet line-up.

Caretaker prime minister, huh?

2 hours ago, webfact said:

potential partner parties expressed discomfort at the involvement of the junta chief in deciding ministry posts.

This appears to be all 'smoke and mirrors'.

A picture paints 1000 words...

 

Just look at those smug idiots !! It sums up everything. They don't give a <deleted> about the country, just how much snout they can stick in the trough..

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Phalang Pracharat takes time out

Can you make that a LONG TIME?

Ideally a long time out sitting in the corner with a dunce cap.   At least long enough to let the current dinosaur and following proto-dinosaur generation die off.  Then there might be the beginnings of hope for a military that actually does its job and, in true Thai style, knows its place.

Edited May 31, 20197 yr by ramr

Im not sure Napolean had to go through all this messing about. ????

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Though Thanathorn has been suspended from functioning as an MP by the Constitutional Court until a ruling on the case against him over alleged media shareholding, Pannika said Thanathorn has the qualification to be the PM and is also suited for the position because of the public’s trust.

YES

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Sources said this time politicians would come up with new offers

 

Yes, try cash in envelopes. Tried and tested method of smoothing out bumps.

What a mess Meechai has created. 

Prayuth down on the farm and section 44 power on the wane?

They are playing Musical troughs,.......

regards worgeordie

"Who is up who?"

33 minutes ago, Chris Lawrence said:

"Who is up who?"

"…..and who's not paying?"

5 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

Pigs fighting at the trough.

Align with the devil & sell your soul if the price is right!!

Forget what the people of Thailand actually voted for.... I feel so very sorry for the FFP and their new followers... their time will come!

What's wrong don't the MP's know how to take orders.
Maybe some attitude adjustment is required.

The last sentence of the PM's recommended book is fitting, it reads:

 

 "No question now what has happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which."

1 hour ago, Chris Lawrence said:

"Who is up who?"

"Who's On First Base"

All was going well with PPRP negotiation until Prayut said he will be the one who will make the final decision on the cabinet. Oops he did it again like his slip-up on the Animal Farm recommendation. He just don't know when to shut his trap.