Prayuth may act as interim PM
The Sunday Nation

BANGKOK: -- But NCPO will continue to oversee new govt, expected in September, to avoid mistakes made by 2006 coup leaders

The junta leader is likely to double as prime minister in an interim government to be set up in September, in order to avoid mistakes made by the 2006 coup leaders, a source in the ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) said yesterday.

It is highly likely now that General Prayuth Chan-ocha, the NCPO chief, will also head the new administration, according to a senior figure in the ruling junta.

The NCPO will retain its present executive power even after the interim government is installed, a source close to Prayuth confirmed to The Sunday Nation.

"That means NCPO can overrule any decision made by the interim government," said the source, who argued that NCPO will ultimately be responsible for how the country is run.

He said NCPO has learned from the experience of the military junta led by General Sonthi Boonyaratglin that hastily transferred power to a civilian interim government after seizing power in 2006. The junta was left with no executive power and lost control of the administration.

"In the end, nothing got done," he said.

The source suggested that it was likely that General Prayuth would continue to head the NCPO in the event he takes over as the interim prime minister.

A new interim government could start functioning in September, Prayuth said during his weekly TV programme on Friday night. He said a provisional charter would be promulgated next month and a national legislative assembly would be set up about a month afterwards.

The interim government would "work in parallel" with the NCPO in order to ensure "smooth functioning in the running of the country".

The source said he believed there would be some "undercurrents" to challenge the interim government's power but that the new administration would prove itself. "We will show that we have good intentions and we have no plans to be corrupt. If the performance is good and people benefit from it. I don't think there will be any opposition," the source said.

Elections for Parliament are expected to be held in October 2015 and a democratically elected government could be in place late next year, the junta leader said on Friday night. He said a new constitution could be ready by August next year.

"You will get a democratically elected government by 2015," Prayuth said.

Meanwhile, the military court has issued an arrest warrant for Jakrapob Penkair, the leader of an anti-NCPO movement, in connection with the recent discovery of war weapons, deputy national police chief General Somyot Poompanmuang said yesterday. He said investigations had shown a link between Jakrapob and the suspects arrested recently for possessing a large amount of war weapons.

Jakrapob, together with former Pheu Thai Party leader Charupong Ruangsuwan, last week set up a group called the Organisation of Free Thais for Human Rights and Democracy.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Prayuth-may-act-as-interim-PM-30237341.html

-- The Nation 2014-06-29

Wow never saw that possibility. We all thought he'd retire and grow tomatoes.

The guy who vowed that when he took over the country he would never be P.M. Why not let the people choose a P.M instead of making yourself the supreme leader.

Go right ahead Khun Prayuth. The red violence has completely stopped and their weapons of terror are being systematically discovered. End of organized state corruption will eventually lead to more satangs finding their way to the rural poor. Police force overhaul should stop this organized crime gang distributing narcotics, facilitating prostitution and preying on the vulnerable. No doubt education and judicial reforms also on the way to the benefit of nearly everybody. It sounds like Prayuth could be the right choice for an interim PM.

Prayuth's final message to the scum he overthrew should be to retain Big Bobby Amsterdam to organize his publicity. Proving that it was all about the money after all.

good call if Thailand want to get things done and not just engage in shadow boxing. People have time to form new parties until October 2015 then. Old out new in.

"in the end, nothing got done," he said.

At least they admit that the Dems did nothing after they get the power from the army.

i really like this guy, chan o chan, he is the perfect guy at the right time for the job.

He is a mix of Bokassa, with a pinch of Nicolas Ceaucescu with a certain something of Imelda Marcos.

I told you, a great guy this chan o chan, i wish him best luck

The head line say's Prayuth MAY act as PM, this has some draw backs as this places General Prayuth at a disadvantage of getting on with the task of reforms , it will be doubtful that the General will take this add responsibility, Chooka or NKK look like contenders at this stage

"in the end, nothing got done," he said.

At least they admit that the Dems did nothing after they get the power from the army.

Think you need to read up a little more dear boy.

He should declare himself pm for life or something like that. Then everyone will be happy for a long time and need not worry about elections, equal rights, law and order..etc... being in the hands of elected civilians who may not know when to step away from the trough.

Poor tv red shirts - loving every minute of their crocodile tears. While they get off to pictures of their patron high lord of corruption and nepotism - Thaksin

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The guy who vowed that when he took over the country he would never be P.M. Why not let the people choose a P.M instead of making yourself the supreme leader.

He's done a better job in a little over a month than anyone else in the past 2 decades - but that must be a cause for complaint from the Thaksin lovers.

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Go right ahead Khun Prayuth. The red violence has completely stopped and their weapons of terror are being systematically discovered. End of organized state corruption will eventually lead to more satangs finding their way to the rural poor. Police force overhaul should stop this organized crime gang distributing narcotics, facilitating prostitution and preying on the vulnerable. No doubt education and judicial reforms also on the way to the benefit of nearly everybody. It sounds like Prayuth could be the right choice for an interim PM.

Prayuth's final message to the scum he overthrew should be to retain Big Bobby Amsterdam to organize his publicity. Proving that it was all about the money after all.

Simple because the people have been unable to pick a decent leader under the corrupt system.

He intends on changing the corrupt system so that when the people do go to the poles to pick their leader they will be given choices with no corruption intended candidates.

I know that goes against the Thai way of doing things but it is time for the Thais to start thinking of Thailand as a united nation and acting like it. This has been impossible under the previous corrupt system.

I mean really folks a fugitive on the run from the law running the country. This is not a good system.

It is a shame that the people who wanted an honest government were not allowed to voice their opinion the speaker would just shut them down. For you proponents of free speech was that free speech.

shut up we don't have to listen to you we have already received are instructions from Dubai and we have the vote so you are wasting are time let us get on with what we the representatives of 48% of the voters want.

That is not free speech. But they did allow and in fact have members backing a speech by the red shirts proposing a separation of the nation and raising an army of 600,000 to do it.

This is not what the people want. A recently pole in the North East showed that 60% are happy with what is going on. In a year and a half Thailand will be a bright shiny new country on the democratic scene in the world. It just took some intelligent people who have learned from past mistakes to do it right.

The source said he believed there would be some "undercurrents" to challenge the interim government's power but that the new administration would prove itself. "We will show that we have good intentions and we have no plans to be corrupt. If the performance is good and people benefit from it. I don't think there will be any opposition," the source said.

That is to be expected. Not every one wants peace or honesty. But the majority of the Thais do. Why do some of the foreigners not want this?

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Poor tv red shirts - loving every minute of their crocodile tears. While they get off to pictures of their patron high lord of corruption and nepotism - Thaksin

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Corruption, corruption, corruption - how awful it is I couldn't agree more.

But ... the latest PT government just had their assets checked, and were found to be not unusually richer after their term in office. Some were poorer. Even Yingluck herself gained financially only from the appreciation in the value of stocks that she already held. Capital gains - nothing illegal or corrupt there ....

Regardless, they were kicked out by the army on the basis of corruption - all sounds a bit like the fabled WMD in Iraq - a pretext to invade.

So where is this corruption smoking gun that all the propaganda keeps talking about? I've got it - corruption in Thailand didn't exist before Thaksin's lot, so they must have invented it, right?

Looks more like a bunch of sore losers who can't win democratic election usurping a civilian government under the barrel of a gun. Or it's a double standard, as they are all corrupt, right?

Wonderful idea. Now as head of the NCPO he will be able overule himself as PM to ensure no mistakes are made.

And overule any newly elected PM all according to the new constitution of course so that will be perfectly legal then.

"in the end, nothing got done," he said.

At least they admit that the Dems did nothing after they get the power from the army.

You must have failed history in High School as everyone knows the People's Power Party, a Thaksin puppet government, won the first election (held a year after the coup) after the military appointed government of retired general Surayud stepped aside in 2007.

Revisionist, much?

The guy who vowed that when he took over the country he would never be P.M. Why not let the people choose a P.M instead of making yourself the supreme leader.

He's done a better job in a little over a month than anyone else in the past 2 decades - but that must be a cause for complaint from the Thaksin lovers.

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I think it may look like "he's done a better job" but that may be because no one can point out what he is doing or not doing without loosing their freedom. It is always better to allow a countries citizens to choose the type of government and government leaders they want.

Another moron along the same lines as Watermelon Bob . . . do you read the same information as everyone else, or is it simply easier to keep spreading lies like you've done so many times in the past to suit your own/Thaksin's agenda?

Suthep made the claim (about him helping to orchestrate the coup since 2010), not Prayuth.

Suthep has already cancelled the "dinners".

Prayuth told them to cancel and has again warned that BOTH sides will be treated the same.

So who's immune from anything? And who's brainwashed other than your side that can't see past the little brown envelopes they love so much but aren't getting any more? And this coup is failing? Seems to be doing pretty good so far from where I'm sitting, and unfortunately, the "majority" support it right now.

The guy who vowed that when he took over the country he would never be P.M. Why not let the people choose a P.M instead of making yourself the supreme leader.

He's done a better job in a little over a month than anyone else in the past 2 decades - but that must be a cause for complaint from the Thaksin lovers.

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I think Thaksin is a low life piece of excrement and the Junta should be going after him. I am definitely not a thaksin lover or a lover of Suthep

i really like this guy, chan o chan, he is the perfect guy at the right time for the job.

He is a mix of Bokassa, with a pinch of Nicolas Ceaucescu with a certain something of Imelda Marcos.

I told you, a great guy this chan o chan, i wish him best luck

The trouble with people who "shoot from the hip" is that the gun gets entangled and the bullet hits them in the foot. I'd be mighty interested to hear you expand on your comments. But then, maybe not.

The guy who vowed that when he took over the country he would never be P.M. Why not let the people choose a P.M instead of making yourself the supreme leader.

He's done a better job in a little over a month than anyone else in the past 2 decades - but that must be a cause for complaint from the Thaksin lovers.

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Quite right. He's certainly done a lot of talking, via media outlets that have to report his every word and no other. That's a good job, right?

"in the end, nothing got done," he said.

At least they admit that the Dems did nothing after they get the power from the army.

You must have failed history in High School as everyone knows the People's Power Party, a Thaksin puppet government, won the first election (held a year after the coup) after the military appointed government of retired general Surayud stepped aside in 2007.

Revisionist, much?

Perfectly true. They won the election, as they always do, only to be swept aside by the courts in favour of more 'preferred' people, i.e., the Dems.

"in the end, nothing got done," he said.

At least they admit that the Dems did nothing after they get the power from the army.

Actually from 2006Junta we went through the appointed Gen. Surayut government, followed by general elections and the Thaksin proxy's Samak /Somchai PMs before we had MP's electing k. Abhisit as PM.

Mind you a bit of a let down on Gen. Surayut. Maybe that's why Gen. Prayuth feels the need to stay on to make sure reforms will get done, implemented before 'real' politicians get a chance to change things to their liking again.

"in the end, nothing got done," he said.

At least they admit that the Dems did nothing after they get the power from the army.

You must have failed history in High School as everyone knows the People's Power Party, a Thaksin puppet government, won the first election (held a year after the coup) after the military appointed government of retired general Surayud stepped aside in 2007.

Revisionist, much?

Perfectly true. They won the election, as they always do, only to be swept aside by the courts in favour of more 'preferred' people, i.e., the Dems.

Indeed, blatantly breaking the rules does tend to cause the courts to 'sweep them aside' and the courts could not have predicted the defection of Thaksin ally BJT Party that swept the Democrats to power.

Conspiracy theory, much?

Wow never saw that possibility. We all thought he'd retire and grow tomatoes.

I think it beats having Suthep as a PM.

Poor tv red shirts - loving every minute of their crocodile tears. While they get off to pictures of their patron high lord of corruption and nepotism - Thaksin

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Corruption, corruption, corruption - how awful it is I couldn't agree more.

But ... the latest PT government just had their assets checked, and were found to be not unusually richer after their term in office. Some were poorer. Even Yingluck herself gained financially only from the appreciation in the value of stocks that she already held. Capital gains - nothing illegal or corrupt there ....

Regardless, they were kicked out by the army on the basis of corruption - all sounds a bit like the fabled WMD in Iraq - a pretext to invade.

So where is this corruption smoking gun that all the propaganda keeps talking about? I've got it - corruption in Thailand didn't exist before Thaksin's lot, so they must have invented it, right?

Looks more like a bunch of sore losers who can't win democratic election usurping a civilian government under the barrel of a gun. Or it's a double standard, as they are all corrupt, right?

The Military never participate as political party in elections. Therefor the military never win/lose. The rest is equally mixing unrelated bits and pieces to get some desired effect.

"in the end, nothing got done," he said.

At least they admit that the Dems did nothing after they get the power from the army.

You must have failed history in High School as everyone knows the People's Power Party, a Thaksin puppet government, won the first election (held a year after the coup) after the military appointed government of retired general Surayud stepped aside in 2007.

Revisionist, much?

Perfectly true. They won the election, as they always do, only to be swept aside by the courts in favour of more 'preferred' people, i.e., the Dems.

Still at the revisionist level, I see. A bit of cooking and some election fraud swept aside by courts must be wrong as it effected the party of the big boss in Dubai. MP's elect Abhisit as PM, but that's wrong, MPs election Samak/Somchai is right.

Poor tv red shirts - loving every minute of their crocodile tears. While they get off to pictures of their patron high lord of corruption and nepotism - Thaksin

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Corruption, corruption, corruption - how awful it is I couldn't agree more.

But ... the latest PT government just had their assets checked, and were found to be not unusually richer after their term in office. Some were poorer. Even Yingluck herself gained financially only from the appreciation in the value of stocks that she already held. Capital gains - nothing illegal or corrupt there ....

Regardless, they were kicked out by the army on the basis of corruption - all sounds a bit like the fabled WMD in Iraq - a pretext to invade.

So where is this corruption smoking gun that all the propaganda keeps talking about? I've got it - corruption in Thailand didn't exist before Thaksin's lot, so they must have invented it, right?

Looks more like a bunch of sore losers who can't win democratic election usurping a civilian government under the barrel of a gun. Or it's a double standard, as they are all corrupt, right?

Lets wait for the real corruption examinations. However stupid the members of the PTP are did you really expect them to put their ill gains on their bank account in their own name ? That would really earn them the name of red buffalo and however stupid some of them are nobody is that stupid.

This was just an examination of how much money they had under their name nothing more nothing less. Let us all wait and see what happens it takes time to dig up all the corruption and I bet paper shredders were doing overtime the last weeks of the PTP administration.

Isn't there some way of bring to justice the fugitive T. S. ? He's the leader of all that is corrupt..... or close to it (IM0).