PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin today (Feb 26) shrugged off criticism that de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra would quietly play a pivotal role in a future reshuffle of cabinet members.

 

The prime minister categorically dismissed speculation that a cabinet reshuffle might probably be looming under the influence of the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole to whom he paid an informal visit on Saturday.

 

Srettha, viewed as a protege pushed to the elected premiership by Thaksin’s sister/deposed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra following last year’s election, persisted that only he himself and nobody else be entirely responsible for a possible reshuffle of the Pheu Thai-led cabinet at any time.

 

The Pheu Thai-backed Srettha was responding to criticism that Thailand is virtually simultaneously run by two prime ministers with the other one being Thaksin who had been deposed from premiership in the 2006 coup, resided in self-exile abroad and returned home last August to literally serve half of his curtailed, one-year sentence for court-convicted misconduct at a hospital in lieu of a prison under a lame excuse of “critical illnesses” the symptoms and details of which remain a mystery to the public.

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. Photo: Thai Rathv

 

Full story: THAI NEWSROOM 2024-02-27

 

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

The prime minister categorically dismissed speculation that a cabinet reshuffle might probably be looming under the influence of the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole to whom he paid an informal visit on Saturday.

Srettha just getting some advice from the master.

......and so it begins.........

I think it would be somewhat misguided to think that it is only now that Thaksin's back in Thailand that he is pulling the strings. His puppeteer arms have been very busy all along. So busy in fact that he now needs one in a sling.

Mr Tony is already running the show and has been from day one when the military succumbed to his demands as they didn’t want TMF party running government !!!!

Tony would make a good Health and Corrective Services Minister, he's had some experience, but I think nothing but the top will do for him!

Sock puppet, best case.

 

Fall guy, worst case.