Tracking the growing Shinawatra influence in new Thai government

[webfact]

 

Less than two months after taking power, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin appears to be overshadowed by the Shinawatra family, judging from the people around him.

 

A high proportion of his official and unofficial advisers, government appointees, and Cabinet colleagues are Shinawatra loyalists, friends, political allies, in-laws, or even family members.

 

Over the past month, PM Srettha has appointed 13 official advisers mostly linked to past governments led by Thaksin Shinawatra or his sister Yingluck.

 

Nine advisers were named on September 14: Kittiratt Na-Ranong, Tewan Liptapanlop, Pichai Chunhavajira, Supanit Chaiyawat, Pimol Srivikorn, Pichit Chuenban, Chonlatit Surasawadi, Chai Watcharong, and Surayut Thavikulwat.

 

Srettha appointed four more on October 4: Tongthong Chandransu, Paitoon Chutimakornkul, Arthit Suriyabhivadh, and Police General Chinnapat Sarasin.

 

PM’s official advisers

 

Kittiratt, 65, served as deputy prime minister, finance minister, and economic czar in Yingluck’s government. Formerly a deputy Pheu Thai leader, Kittiratt has now been hired to share his expertise as Srettha’s chief adviser.

 

Srettha had backed Kittiratt for the post of new Football Association of Thailand president but seemed to change his mind a few days before being voted in as prime minister, saying he “would be better suited to helping out the government with its work”.

 

By Thai PBS World’s Political Desk

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2023-10-16

 

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[madmitch]

Did anyone expect anything different?

[neeray]

The master "homecoming" plan is slowly being revealed.

[jippytum]

Asian people are blind to people that rob them. Remember the Marcos family in the Philipines. Won every election then fled to America with millions.Remaining family members however are still popular with voters. 

Same with the Shinawatra clan they will corrupt the senate to ensure future elections and add to their ill gotten gains for decades. 

 

 

[2baht]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin

Keeping the seat warm!

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Less than two months after taking power, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin appears to be overshadowed by the Shinawatra family, judging from the people around him.

Thakisin giving orders from his sick bed...

[TheFishman1]

The one that’s really in power is doing a Hospital in the months to come all will be revealed TIT

[2baht]

17 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Thakisin giving orders from his sick bed...

Shhhh! ...................He's not really sick! It's just a lame excuse to keep him out of the can! ????

 

 

[nobodysfriend]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

A high proportion of his official and unofficial advisers, government appointees, and Cabinet colleagues are Shinawatra loyalists, friends, political allies, in-laws, or even family members.

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Kittiratt, 65, served as deputy prime minister, finance minister, and economic czar in Yingluck’s government. Formerly a deputy Pheu Thai leader, Kittiratt has now been hired to share his expertise as Srettha’s chief adviser.

The Shinawatras won the election , it seems  .

Corrupt to the core , they , a long time ago , set up a plan to steal the election , and it worked out .

Thai people betrayed again .

 

[crazykopite]

The current PM is just the poodle to the fugitive it’s clear for all to see once the fugitive is released from his hospital bed he will make a miracle recovery within hours and will be controlling the government. These ministers must think the public are idiots to believe all this verbal diarrhoea they keep spewing out every single day . Come the next election there will only be one winner and it will be a landslide 

[nickmondo]

its really none of our business.

yes, its obvious what is happening here........but we are not Thai, and we choose to live here or not...........for now at least we have that choice....

before we start criticising Thai politics, we should all take a long hard look at our own governments, especially UK and US

 

[RandolphGB]

9 minutes ago, nickmondo said:

its really none of our business.

yes, its obvious what is happening here........but we are not Thai, and we choose to live here or not...........for now at least we have that choice....

before we start criticising Thai politics, we should all take a long hard look at our own governments, especially UK and US

 

Anyone who lives in, or even visits, Thailand, is paying a lot in taxes to varying degrees, that funds this s**t show. We all have every right to criticize them. 

 

 

 

 

[Fairynuff]

Stating the obvious. Only a fool would be fooled!

[wombat]

Oh No...please say it isn't so...how can this be?

[ignore it]

Please be careful with the "poodle" talk.

[Marco51]

3 hours ago, jippytum said:

Asian people are blind to people that rob them. Remember the Marcos family in the Philipines. Won every election then fled to America with millions.Remaining family members however are still popular with voters. 

Same with the Shinawatra clan they will corrupt the senate to ensure future elections and add to their ill gotten gains for decades. 

 

 

Asians only ? Maybe the family clan structure is greater here but have you lately had a look at the US, Can, some EU countires , where clan structure is not so much defined by last names but by generations of party loyalists and old rope teams .................

[lks7689]

3 hours ago, jippytum said:

Asian people are blind to people that rob them. Remember the Marcos family in the Philipines. Won every election then fled to America with millions.Remaining family members however are still popular with voters. 

Same with the Shinawatra clan they will corrupt the senate to ensure future elections and add to their ill gotten gains for decades. 

 

 

It's the same all over the world just that the facade is different. Your comment just point to how ignorant you are. 

[Marco51]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Thakisin giving orders from his sick bed...

Who do you think came up with he idea of the 10K Crypto Baht scam present, of hence clearing the way for the new "foreign income taxing system" that will neccessarily have loads of loopholes for certain people and "situations" and do we all remember the type of press freedom this "democratically minded saviour of the peoples will" had in mind , he who basically owned and controlled the media byuing independant news channels (promising 1 thing, keeping another) and owning satelites , his little "stop signs" when a question was unpleasant , some dealings with Temasec , his monopolies on mobile phones for many years that kept prices beyond anything elsewhere until, if I remeber correctly Ericson put a stop to it, etc etc p.p........... Wait for all the new brilliant ideas he will , sorry, the real estate fall guy, will come up with in the near future, they will cost every Thai dearly but us farang who have always seen through him much much more.

[kingstonkid]

4 hours ago, madmitch said:

Did anyone expect anything different?

Thaksin rules that party both in ideology as well as financially.

 

Even when in Dubai he was still in charge.  Did anyone think things would change?

[Gandtee]

53 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

The current PM is just the poodle to the fugitive it’s clear for all to see once the fugitive is released from his hospital bed he will make a miracle recovery within hours and will be controlling the government. These ministers must think the public are idiots to believe all this verbal diarrhoea they keep spewing out every single day . Come the next election there will only be one winner and it will be a landslide 

Sadly the public do appear to be idiots, as they continually allow this manipulation to happen. The puppet masters do this blatantly as they know the puppets will dance to their tune. Very sad.

[kingstonkid]

3 hours ago, jippytum said:

Asian people are blind to people that rob them. Remember the Marcos family in the Philipines. Won every election then fled to America with millions.Remaining family members however are still popular with voters. 

Same with the Shinawatra clan they will corrupt the senate to ensure future elections and add to their ill gotten gains for decades. 

 

 

The issue is that they can't corrupt the senate more than the military and elites have.  

 

Thaksin is in power but barely and he knows it.  The elites can remove him at any time by simply pointing a finger at the BJT, PPRP and UTN

 

This is probably the least power that he has had since he started all his parties.

 

Anyone who has been here for more than a year knows that no matter who the PM is the leader of Thailand when PT is in power is Thaksin.

[kingstonkid]

3 minutes ago, Gandtee said:

Sadly the public do appear to be idiots, as they continually allow this manipulation to happen. The puppet masters do this blatantly as they know the puppets will dance to their tune. Very sad.

The only reason that PT is in power is that the military had no other choice.  The people turned against them and voted for the MFP.

 

The challenge the military had to figure out was how to get back the power which they did with this new government.  Thaksin may be the head of the government but even with all his advisors unless they can outspend the Elite they will have to dance to the military puppet.

 

BTW the military is going to do everything it can to discredit the MFP and PT and once they thinkthey can win again they will end the PT reign and call for a new election.

[BenStark]

47 minutes ago, RandolphGB said:

Anyone who lives in, or even visits, Thailand, is paying a lot in taxes to varying degrees

Please enlighten us on the LOT OF taxes that a visitor pays.

 

Let's hope you don't have in mind the VAT on goods, which you have to pay in about every country in the world, and is in Thailand at 7% about a third of what it is in most other countries.

 

So your statement actually should have been, anyone who lives or visits SAVES a lot of taxes

[fondue zoo]

4 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

The issue is that they can't corrupt the senate more than the military and elites have.  

 

Thaksin is in power but barely and he knows it.  The elites can remove him at any time by simply pointing a finger at the BJT, PPRP and UTN

 

This is probably the least power that he has had since he started all his parties.

 

Anyone who has been here for more than a year knows that no matter who the PM is the leader of Thailand when PT is in power is Thaksin.

They all are bound by the directives and authority of another, and serve at their pleasure.

 

 

[brianthainess]

4 hours ago, jippytum said:

Same with the Shinawatra clan they will corrupt the senate

Is that really possible to corrupt the Military senate anymore than it all ready is?

[kingstonkid]

4 minutes ago, fondue zoo said:

They all are bound by the directives and authority of another, and serve at their pleasure.

 

 

The catch is that the people in power are the minority in this case.  The people in power are not the PT or shin family. 

[retarius]

I for one hope the economy returns to the Shinawatra times after the coup leaders have spent like drunken sailors, and Srettha seems to want to do the same.

[brianthainess]

On hearing this news

[Andrew65]

His biggest crime was to propose helping the less well off, less fortunate, in Thai society (something that certain other people consider themselves to have a 'monpoly' over, but don't do a good job of).????

[RandolphGB]

1 hour ago, BenStark said:

Please enlighten us on the LOT OF taxes that a visitor pays.

 

Let's hope you don't have in mind the VAT on goods, which you have to pay in about every country in the world, and is in Thailand at 7% about a third of what it is in most other countries.

 

So your statement actually should have been, anyone who lives or visits SAVES a lot of taxes

Plane tickets, taxis, fuel, hotels, food, drinks... anything where payments are mad.

 

VAT and income / profit tax from the business all find their way to the establishment.

 

The moment you spend money in a country, part of that ends up in the government. 

 

If you don't understand that, you're just not intelligent or experienced enough to have any discussion with.