Pita’s chance of becoming next prime minister shrinks on eve of Parliamentary vote

[webfact]

 

The chance of Move Forward Party chief Pita Limjaroenrat becoming Thailand’s next prime minister shrank on Wednesday as Parliament prepared for Thursday’s vote to select the country’s leader.    

 

The Election Commission asked the Constitutional Court to rule if Pita, who is the top PM candidate by virtue of Move Forward’s election win, had violated election law.

 

The EC also asked the court to suspend Pita as a member of the House of Representatives.

 

This latest move by the election agency certainly will affect the parliamentary vote and Pita’s chance of gaining a majority at the joint meeting of 500 MPs and 250 senators.

 

This case stems from Pita’s holding of 42,000 shares in iTV, Thailand’s first independent broadcaster, which has not operated as a media outlet since 2007 and has fought a long legal battle with the Prime Minister’s Secretariat over the decision to revoke its broadcast concession.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/pitas-chance-of-becoming-next-prime-minister-shrinks-on-eve-of-parliamentary-vote/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-07-13

 

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[2baht]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

The EC also asked the court to suspend Pita as a member of the House of Representatives.

The dinosaurs plan is working, greed at it's finest! Showing their true colors!

 

 

Edited July 13, 2023 by 2baht

[ikke1959]

Good move of the EC, the senators, and the dinosaurs.... The TAT will not be happy as there are warnings already from the Embassies.. Do they really think that tourists will book a holiday with this threat of demonstrations, political unrest, and maybe more?? Did these people think that they can do the same as with Futere Forward?? We are 4 years further and people don't accept it.. The French stormed the Bastille, as they had a similar situation.. 

[SooKee]

His chances have been zero since the day he won.  Merely a case of waiting for whatever trumped up reason the Jurassic Park Crew would come up with as to why. ????

[keith101]

They just can't handle the fact that Pitas party won the election and they lost decades of power and military rule

[2baht]

Just now, keith101 said:

They just can't handle the fact that Pitas party won the election and they lost decades of power and military rule

They just can't handle that someone else may get their snouts in the trough! Thailand Inc!

[mfd101]

I wonder whether the coalition members (300+) have a contingency plan for tonight, after the vote ... eg mass walkout & refusal to attend Parliament again until Pita has the all-clear from the CC.

 

Or is that not machiavellian enough to cope with Thai machinations?

[Henryford]

I said at the very beginning dictators never lose elections.

[mania]

2 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

The TAT will not be happy as there are warnings already from the Embassies.. Do they really think that tourists will book a holiday with this threat of demonstrations, political unrest, and maybe more??

Not just tourists....

 

We left our Thai home in 2016 as we did not want to support a coup government in any way at all.

 

We had hopes of possibly moving back to our Thai house as it finally looked like Thailand was once again going to be free. ????

Edited July 13, 2023 by mania

[h90]

3 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Good move of the EC, the senators, and the dinosaurs.... The TAT will not be happy as there are warnings already from the Embassies.. Do they really think that tourists will book a holiday with this threat of demonstrations, political unrest, and maybe more?? Did these people think that they can do the same as with Futere Forward?? We are 4 years further and people don't accept it.. The French stormed the Bastille, as they had a similar situation.. 

Not unique...Thailand had the same many times and most of the times it got resolved without violence.....

But for tourism not good...

[h90]

11 minutes ago, mania said:

Not just tourists....

 

We left our Thai home in 2016 as we did not want to support a coup government in any way at all.

 

We had hopes of possibly moving back to our Thai house as it finally looked like Thailand was once again going to be free. ????

yes but not many did the same....if you leave at every coup you are only half the time here

[h90]

2 hours ago, mfd101 said:

I wonder whether the coalition members (300+) have a contingency plan for tonight, after the vote ... eg mass walkout & refusal to attend Parliament again until Pita has the all-clear from the CC.

 

Or is that not machiavellian enough to cope with Thai machinations?

plan of PTP will be to get PM themself........

[mfd101]

15 minutes ago, h90 said:

plan of PTP will be to get PM themself........

I fear you are probably right. Although - on reflection - not necessarily bad.  MFP would still be the largest party in a PTP-led government, it could thus greatly influence decision-making including through its share of ministerial positions. It would also continue on its sharp learning curve for the next election ...

 

Not necessarily a bad outcome, though it would be a sad loss to the country if its bright young leader (all too fluent though still a bit wet behind the ears) could not be part of all of that. Ditto for Thanathorn.

Edited July 13, 2023 by mfd101

[mania]

17 minutes ago, h90 said:

yes but not many did the same....if you leave at every coup you are only half the time here

True but we knew this one was different.

We stayed for 2014 & 2015 but then we saw this one was different & left in 2016...in hind sight I guess we had it right.

 

Edited July 13, 2023 by mania

[Mr Meeseeks]

3 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Good move of the EC, the senators, and the dinosaurs.... The TAT will not be happy as there are warnings already from the Embassies.. Do they really think that tourists will book a holiday with this threat of demonstrations, political unrest, and maybe more?? Did these people think that they can do the same as with Futere Forward?? We are 4 years further and people don't accept it.. The French stormed the Bastille, as they had a similar situation.. 

Tourists won't care, they never have before. Still arrived in significant numbers during political turmoil, the only exception was when the Yellow Shirts shut down Thailand's international airports, which cost the country billions.

[ikke1959]

22 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Tourists won't care, they never have before. Still arrived in significant numbers during political turmoil, the only exception was when the Yellow Shirts shut down Thailand's international airports, which cost the country billions.

tourists won't care indeed, It is only the money the have bring in... 

[h90]

1 hour ago, mania said:

True but we knew this one was different.

We stayed for 2014 & 2015 but then we saw this one was different & left in 2016...in hind sight I guess we had it right.

 

I was here all the time....a bit outside from downtown. If you don't watch TV you wouldn't have noticed that something is different.....life continued exactly the same as before.....No one care about the coup (as no one cared about the yellow or red shirts before). And in most parts the military continued the bad politics without any positive or negative reforms

[John Drake]

2 hours ago, h90 said:

plan of PTP will be to get PM themself........

And why shouldn't they? They are competent and actually know what they're doing. Who the heck was advising Pita and MF? Whoever it was should never work in politics again.

[h90]

2 hours ago, mfd101 said:

I fear you are probably right. Although - on reflection - not necessarily bad.  MFP would still be the largest party in a PTP-led government, it could thus greatly influence decision-making including through its share of ministerial positions. It would also continue on its sharp learning curve for the next election ...

 

Not necessarily a bad outcome, though it would be a sad loss to the country if its bright young leader (all too fluent though still a bit wet behind the ears) could not be part of all of that. Ditto for Thanathorn.

That is possible.

Would be also possible that the PTP makes a coaliton without them, but with BJ and Dems....I think (but not sure) it would be possible from the numbers

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

This latest move by the election agency certainly will affect the parliamentary vote and Pita’s chance of gaining a majority at the joint meeting of 500 MPs and 250 senators.

Tripped at the last fence...

I feel really sorry for the Thai people who want change...

maybe they have to do more than vote to get change, seems that never works,

Time to step up and make a noise.

[h90]

Just now, John Drake said:

And why shouldn't they? They are competent and actually know what they're doing. Who the heck was advising Pita and MF? Whoever it was should never work in politics again.

In general they are competent...the Yingluck government was not (if someone recall the drunk Chalerm and that minister that make the mostly naked rain-dance), but they have competent people. And the first Thaksin government was pretty good.

[John Drake]

Just now, h90 said:

In general they are competent...the Yingluck government was not (if someone recall the drunk Chalerm and that minister that make the mostly naked rain-dance), but they have competent people. And the first Thaksin government was pretty good.

Thaksin is one smart cookie. And he knows how to make money, not only for himself but for Thailand as well. I'm just an observer of things. But it's clear that Mr. T is the only visionary Thai politician in the past 30 or more years.

[h90]

Just now, John Drake said:

Thaksin is one smart cookie. And he knows how to make money, not only for himself but for Thailand as well. I'm just an observer of things. But it's clear that Mr. T is the only visionary Thai politician in the past 30 or more years.

True....if only he wouldn't get that corrupt and dictatorial in his second term.....If he would have been one of the greatest PMs...And even the yellow give him credit for being smart

[Mr Meeseeks]

1 minute ago, h90 said:

In general they are competent...the Yingluck government was not (if someone recall the drunk Chalerm and that minister that make the mostly naked rain-dance), but they have competent people. And the first Thaksin government was pretty good.

Plenty of examples of incompetence within the last government.

 

I quite like this article from the Thai Enquirer:

 

The Prayut Chan-ocha epoch will hang over Thailand foreseeable future. So great were its faults and so damaging its policies, that the mist of this era will blanket and cloud the next one for some time to come. 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/50166/the-indelible-fool-prayut-era-influential-and-unwanted/

 

 

[anchadian]

Welcome to the fortress:

 

Jonathan Head

@pakhead

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Bizarre, slightly disturbing tactic by the Thai authorities outside parliament. Do they really think they can conceal the fact that they’ve had to barricade the country’s parliament because of the move to block the party that won the May election from power?

 

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Thai authorities covered the shipping container, which was placed around the parliament building, with cloth sheets depicting tourist destinations in Thailand, in order to block demonstrations today This is a country that claims to be a “democracy”

 

https://twitter.com/pakhead/status/1679363810157826048

[John Drake]

2 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Welcome to the fortress:

 

Jonathan Head

@pakhead

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Bizarre, slightly disturbing tactic by the Thai authorities outside parliament. Do they really think they can conceal the fact that they’ve had to barricade the country’s parliament because of the move to block the party that won the May election from power?

 

Quote Tweet

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Thai authorities covered the shipping container, which was placed around the parliament building, with cloth sheets depicting tourist destinations in Thailand, in order to block demonstrations today This is a country that claims to be a “democracy”

 

https://twitter.com/pakhead/status/1679363810157826048

This is right out of the PRC playbook. Next we'll be seeing unobtrusive groups of men hanging around with umbrellas at the ready.

[John Drake]

17 minutes ago, h90 said:

the Yingluck government was not (if someone recall the drunk Chalerm and that minister that make the mostly naked rain-dance), but they have competent people.

Compared to what's going on right now, Yingluck's government looks like Periclean Athens.

[1happykamper]

So if not Pita... who will be next PM? 

[h90]

2 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Compared to what's going on right now, Yingluck's government looks like Periclean Athens.

No....not a fan from the current government, but the Yingluck government was by far the worst....even worse than Abhisit....

Rice Scam, that cost huge amounts to the farmer and the country.

mismanagement from the floods, with warehouses full of help that was not distributed, so China started to hand out help direct to the Thai army.

Chalerm giving interviews full drunk

real fighting on the klongs on where to flood and where to protect

while everyone is in the water to the neck they built a wood construction so Yingluck could walk over the people with her designer boots.

she complete clueless.....can't even speaking numbers in Thai.....

That was as bad as if you would let someone like Anutin manage Covid ....(by thinking about that I retract "far worse" and replace it with "as bad")

 

[h90]

3 minutes ago, 1happykamper said:

So if not Pita... who will be next PM? 

the PTP guy (forgot his name)?

Anutin?

Prawit?