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MFP's reforming spirit will live on
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/07/2024
» Come what may on Aug 7, the opposition Move Forward Party (MFP) appears to be ready to face the axe from the Constitutional Court. The party could be dissolved and/or all 11 members of the executive committee barred from contesting elections for 10 years, as sought by the Election Commission.
Road ahead for MFP full of uncertainty
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/05/2023
» Given the majority of 313 House seats out of 500 won by the coalition parties led by the Move Forward Party (MFP), Pita Limjaroenrat, that party's prime ministerial candidate, should rightfully become Thailand's 30th prime minister.
Self-interest governs list-seat drama
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/07/2022
» The prospect that the opposition Pheu Thai Party may win a landslide election next year may have struck fear among bigwigs in the government.
Expansive gestures from hopeful leaders
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/01/2022
» Exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra appears to be more confident of his chances of returning home triumphantly this year.
Charter rejig ties MPs up in knots
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/03/2021
» Staunch royalist and conformist Senator Somchai Sawaengkarn recently complained about he and his colleagues' failed attempts to make the amendment of the 2017 military-sponsored constitution more difficult.
Regime's best-laid plans still subject to folly
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/01/2018
» Was Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon really serious when he issued a stern warning to officials of the Foreign Ministry, the Office of the Attorney-General and police that they could face malfeasance in office charges under the Criminal Code if they do not try hard enough to have fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra sent back home to face the music?
Why respect the law if the govt doesn't?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/11/2013
» The government’s expansion of the enforcement of the Internal Security Act to cover all of Bangkok and Nonthaburi and Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan and Pathum Thani’s Lat Lum Kaew district is meaningless, as it has already been defied by thousands and thousands of protesters
Pheu Thai on reckless, dangerous, path
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/11/2013
» The ruling Pheu Thai Party is in a hurry, as if there is no tomorrow. So the party released all the brakes and went into overdrive at full throttle or sud soi, a term used by its master, self-exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Protests a costly lesson for Thaksin, PM
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/11/2013
» Like a car which needs to be refuelled to keep running, the protest at the Democracy Monument on Ratchadamnoen Avenue needs to be escalated from time to time to keep momentum going.
Charter ruling favours Pheu Thai for now
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/10/2013
» The ruling Pheu Thai Party and its ally, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, or the red shirt movement, have always held the Constitution Court in deep mistrust and contempt for being biased against them.