BANGKOK — Thailand's Pheu Thai party to decide PM candidate as parliamentary vote looms The biggest party in Thailand's caretaker government met on Thursday (Aug 15) to choose a successor for dismissed premier Srettha Thavisin, as it races to shore up alliances a day ahead of a pivotal parliamentary vote on a new prime minister.
Thailand's Pheu Thai party to decide PM candidate as parliamentary vote looms The biggest party in Thailand's caretaker government met on Thursday to choose a successor for dismissed premier Srettha Thavisin, as it races to shore up alliances a day ahead of a pivotal parliamentary vote on a new prime minister.
Pheu Thai said its executives would decide in the afternoon on one of two eligible prime ministerial candidates — Chaikasem Nitisiri, 75, a former attorney-general and justice minister, and its inexperienced leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the 37-year-old daughter of divisive political heavyweight Thaksin Shinawatra.
Srettha was the movement's fourth premier to be removed by a court ruling and his downfall could indicate the end of an uneasy detente between Thaksin and his enemies in the conservative elite and military old guard, which had enabled the tycoon's return from self-exile in 2023 and ally Srettha to become premier the same day.
"If they can vote sooner, then the vote is more manageable. They can control the outcome of the house."The court ruled Srettha had "grossly breached ethical standards" when he gave a cabinet post to Thaksin's former lawyer Pichit Chuenban, who was briefly imprisoned for contempt of court in 2008 over an alleged attempt to bribe court staff, which was never proven.
"Bhumjaithai, as a coalition partner, gladly supports the PM candidates of Pheu Thai," leader Anutin Charnvirakul said.
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