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Bangkok Post
Bangkok Post
National

New calls for cabinet rejig

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha emerges from the weekly cabinet meeting and makes his way through Government House on Wednesday. It was the first cabinet meeting he has chaired since the Constitutional Court ruled on Sept 30 that his tenure as premier has not ended. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)

A cabinet reshuffle is expected to take place soon and may involve the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) after some party members lobbied for their leader Gen Prawit Wongsuwon to take over the interior portfolio ahead of the general election.

The Democrat Party is seeking a reshuffle to fill a seat left vacant by Niphon Bunyamanee who resigned as deputy interior minister to fight a court case for alleged malfeasance while he was president of the Songkhla provincial administration organisation (PAO) in 2013.

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