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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/12/2012
» Despite the strong possibility the government may not get the minimum 24 million votes needed in a referendum to rewrite the entire constitution, it appears determined to push ahead with the planned plebiscite.
Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/09/2012
» The political future of Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit, who is also interior minister, hangs in the balance with pressure being applied both inside the party and outside for him to resign from political office.
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Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/03/2012
» The stage is set for the government to ram its reconciliation plan through the parliament this session, using its clear majority, despite protests from the opposition and others. The same force of numbers was used in the push for a charter rewrite, when the House panel on constitutional amendments forced a reversal of an earlier decision.
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Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/03/2012
» King Prajadhipok’s Institute has come under heavy fire over its controversial study and report on national reconciliation after the House reconciliation committee agreed by majority vote to adopt one of the recommendations. The committee chairman, 2006 coup leader General Sonthi Boonyatkalin, was also in the public spotlight when he refused a request to tell the whole truth about the overthrow of the Thaksin government.
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Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/01/2012
» Two street protests greeted the government this week with more to come soon and the government's plan for a two billion baht compensation package for victims of political violence seems to have backfired. But the "talk of the town" is the ear-bashing incident at Suvarnabhumi airport.