Reshuffle talk if PM keeps task

UTN backs Akanat for ministerial post PUBLISHED : 6 Aug 2024 at 08: 02 Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin (photo: Government House) Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is prepared to thinkabout a cabinet reshuffle if he makesitthrough a legal case pending a Constitutional Court judgment next week. He made the remark after Pirapan Salirathavibhaga, the leader of the union United Thai Nation (UTN) Party, proposed the shake-up to enable its secretary-general Akanat Promphan to fill a ministerial post which stays uninhabited under the celebration’s quota. “There are numerous problems including the justice system this month…If a union celebration proposes [a cabinet reshuffle], I am prepared to thinkabout it, however I won’t do it any time quickly because there is a case pending a Constitutional Court judgment. We have to regard the court veryfirst,” Mr Srettha stated. On Aug 14, the Constitutional Court will choose whether Mr Srettha will stay as prime minister over his choice to designate ex-convict Pichit Chuenban as a PM’s Office Minister in the last cabinet reshuffle. A petition lookingfor to dismiss the prime minister was sent in M
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