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Minority govt perils
News, Editorial, Published on 08/05/2023
» The issue of a potential minority government forming after the upcoming election has garnered public attention and criticism following recent remarks by Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, acknowledging the possibility in theory.
Poll 'game' won't work
Oped, Editorial, Published on 29/07/2022
» Rumours of another attempt to amend the constitution -- which will see the next election revert from the current two-ballot system to the one-ballot system that was used in the last election -- have been rife in parliament over the past couple of days.
Pheu Thai Party in peril
News, Editorial, Published on 11/10/2018
» As the general election, tentatively planned for Feb 24, draws nearer, the Pheu Thai Party's very existence has increasingly come under threat. A lawsuit and several allegations against its executives have put the party at risk of being dissolved.
Pheu Thai has point to prove
News, Editorial, Published on 18/08/2018
» The executives of the Pheu Thai Party may end up thanking their three former colleagues who have been busy siphoning a chunk of the party's former MPs into the fold of a party that backs the military regime. How it handles the poaching saga may prove a yardstick in the party's evolution into an entity less dependent on, and free from the influence of, the Shinawatra clan.
Playing field tilted to regime
News, Editorial, Published on 05/07/2018
» No matter how many former MPs the newly formed "three amigos" political group, or Sam Mitr, will eventually recruit for Phalang Pracharat, their alleged actions seem contrary to the spirit of the election law and the political ban -- both of which are the work of the military regime.