Prayut, Paetongtarn, Settha Blasted For Not Running In Party-Listed Mode

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Caretaker prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Photo: Matichon

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

 

NOTED ACADEMICS HAVE TAKEN to task caretaker prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and a couple of top Pheu Thai candidates over their failure to run for prime minister as well as for party-listed MP in concurrent fashion toward the May 14 general election.

 

Jade Donavanik, dean of the College of Asian Scholars’ Faculty of Law, remarked those prominent figures who have merely chosen to run for head of a post-election government are not only spurning the elected legislative branch but remaining insincere to the people in the first place, regardless of personal reasons which they may have conceivably cherished.

 

Prayut who rose to power by way of the 2014 coup which he had orchestrated as army chief and has been usually critical of MPs on either side of the House chamber’s aisle is more or less still trying to literally keep his distance from the elected lawmakers, thus prompting himself to be looking for nothing more than power to stay at the helm under the Ruam Thai Sang Chart tickets, said the College of Asian Scholars academic.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/04/01/prayut-paetongtarn-settha-blasted-for-not-running-in-party-listed-mode/

 

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[hotchilli]

Did we expect anything different?

[klauskunkel]

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Probably it might never dawn on the coup leader-turned-prime minister how an elected legislator could work to promote social values or public interests in the first place whilst he would rather enjoy giving out orders than taking them

One of those mystery things that no one has explained properly to the order-barker-in-chief

 

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The NIDA academic said the failure of Paetongtarn and Settha to run for party-listed MP in concurrent fashion with premiership is sternly self-contradictory to one of their own party’s ideological standpoints.

Ideology is purely ornamental in Thailand's political landscape, but as a "NIDA academic" you must surely know that...

[Enoon]

Paetongtarn good,  Prayut BAD

 

 

 

[bamnutsak]

This is covered in the Constitution.

 

Parties can put forth up to threenames as PM candidates, one of which could be put up for a vote in Parliament. I do not think this is binding though (open question with no precedent).

 

Section 88. In a general election, a political party sending a candidate for
election shall notify the Election Commission of not more than three names of persons
endorsed by resolution of the political party that would be proposed to the House of
Representatives for consideration and approval for appointment as Prime Minister prior to
the end of the period for application for candidacy. The Election Commission shall
announce the names of such persons to the public, and the provisions of section 87
paragraph two shall apply, mutatis mutandis.

A political party may decide not to propose a list of names of persons under
paragraph one.

 

 

 

 

AFAIK, the PM does not need to be an elected or party-list MP.

 

 

 

 

[kingstonkid]

Should be mandatory that the person actually runs.  Yes I know they will run in safe seats but at least they run.

[Srikcir]

Just some semantics.

Prayut did not "rose to power" but rather "grabbed power. " The former implies a peaceful transition for Head of State while the latter involves military force. 

Paradoxically, Prayut has argued recently and the Constitutional Court agrees that he was not the PM from 2014-2018. So I guess he must had "fallen into power" at that time without knowing it?

[Maestro]

Removed an off-topic post.