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Thamanat shrugs off reports 260 MPs will support Prayut

Thamanat Prompow, expelled former secretary-general the Palang Pracharat Party, answers reporters' questions on Sept 10, 2019, when he was still deputy agriculture and cooperatives minister. (File photo: Bangkok Post)

Controversial MP Thamanat Prompow has shrugged off reports Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will get the required support from 260 MPs to avoid a censure, saying no-one in the Setthakij Thai Party (Thai Economic Party) would vote for him.

The Phayao MP, who recently joined Setthakij Thai, was speaking on Tuesday whe he led party MPs to Tha Rue Klong Toey port community and handed out relief packages to residents hit by the Covid-19 outbreak.

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