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Calling on the red shirts: Pheu Thai needs you to beat the dope vote!

The Pheu Thai Party has welcomed former red-shirt stalwart Nattawut Saikuar back to the fold, hoping his oratorical skills will help win support in the Northeast that has been tapped by the Bhumjaithai Party, political scientists say.

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'Family' tour takes aim at Bhumjaithai

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, on Saturday led the Pheu Thai Party on a tour of Si Sa Ket province where it appeared to target the coalition Bhumjaithai Party.

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Surapong quits top Pheu Thai role: source

Dr Surapong Suebwonglee has resigned as the Pheu Thai Party's acting director to avoid a possible legal complication that could cause the main opposition party to be dissolved, according to a party source.

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Paetongtarn tests positive

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Pheu Thai Party's chief of the Inclusion and Innovation Adviser Committees, has contracted Covid-19 after visiting her father, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, in Singapore on Saturday.

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Small fry may turn coat at censure meet

A Group of 16 MPs from small parties is undecided whether to vote against the government in the next censure debate.

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Pheu Thai 'renegades' face chop

Seven "renegade" Pheu Thai Party MPs who voted for the 2023 budget bill have been kicked out of the party's Line group and will also face an ethical probe likely leading to their expulsion.

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The opposition MPs who support govt’s budget bill

Seven opposition MPs from the Pheu Thai Party and four from the Move Forward Party voted for the government's 2023 budget bill in its first reading on Thursday night.

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Licking its post-poll wounds, PPRP faces downgrade to 'medium' status

The results of the gubernatorial race and the city council election on May 22 are troubling developments for the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) with political analysts agreeing the ruling party is unlikely to repeat its 2019 poll success in Bangkok.

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Explainer: What does Chadchart Sittipunt want?

Following the first election in nine years, Bangkok welcomes 56-year-old Chadchart Sittipunt as its newest governor with a record-breaking landslide victory of 1.4 million votes.

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Capital vote 'not a bellwether'

Academics say the victory of independent candidate Chadchart Sittipunt in Bangkok's gubernatorial election and the gains made by the Pheu Thai and Move Forward parties in the capital's councillor polls only reflect the political sentiment in major cities.

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Political polarisation 'starting to ease'

Independent candidate Chadchart Sittipunt's victory in Sunday's Bangkok governor election has shown that political polarisation is starting to ease, with voters backing candidates from opposite political camps, a renowned academic said.

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Bangkok votes in new governor for first time in nine years

A former transport minister in the Thai government ousted by a 2014 military coup won Bangkok's first governor election for nine years on Sunday in what some observers say is a sign of the waning popularity of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.

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Judicial precedent 'needed' to prevent coups

Today eight years ago the military did what many feared it would do -- engineer the coup that toppled the Pheu Thai Party-led government. Naming itself the National Council for Peace and Order, the coup maker argued it had to seize power to break the legal and political impasse. To…

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The Bangkok decider

After nine long years, the 4.4 million voters in Bangkok finally get their chance to elect a governor from a diverse pool of candidates on Sunday.

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No word on Thamanat dinner date

A dinner on May 23 between the opposition Pheu Thai Party and the Setthakij Thai Party and small parties is still on, according to Deputy Pheu Thai leader Yuttapong Charasathien.

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Suspicions spark call to halt EEC water bids

The House Committee on Budgeting Study and Budget Administration will on Tuesday call on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to scrap the latest bidding for the main water transmission pipeline system for the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), citing the transparency of the process.

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Scare tactics set to fall on deaf ears

If you don't choose us, HE will return!

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Prawit denies bid to control Setthakij Thai

Deputy Prime Minister and ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) leader Prawit Wongsuwon has denied trying to wield influence over the Setthakij Thai Party by putting the brakes on a plan by its secretary-general, Capt Thamanat Prompow, to have dinner with the opposition Pheu Thai Party.

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Pichet slated for disloyalty

The ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) on Wednesday handed down punishments against MP Pichet Sathirachawal for turning against it by allegedly teaming up with the Pheu Thai Party in preparing a censure debate targeting the government.

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No dinner date for Thamanat

Deputy Prime Minister and Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) leader Prawit Wongsuwon has put the brakes on a plan by Capt Thamanat Prompow, secretary-general of the Setthakij Thai Party, to have dinner with the opposition Pheu Thai Party.

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Prawit: Thamanat won't dine with Pheu Thai

Deputy Prime Minister and Palang Paracharath Party (PPRP) leader Prawit Wongsuwon has put a halt to any plans by Thamanat Prompow, secretary-general of the Setthakij Thai Party, to have dinner with the opposition Pheu Thai Party.

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PM defies efforts to oust him from office

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has defied attempts to unseat him, saying the country will not be better off even if he is forced from office.

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Opposition applies heat over eastern pipeline bid

Pheu Thai Party says it will make transparency a key issue during a no-confidence debate expected in July in relation to the bidding for a major water project in the country's eastern region.

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Suthep takes aim at Pheu Thai

Former protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban announced he will fight against "Thaksinocracy" after Paetongtarn Shinawatra, a daughter of fugitive ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, said the Pheu Thai Party with which she is affiliated would win the next election by a landslide.

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Pheu Thai up in arms over Abhisit claim

Former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has come under fire from Pheu Thai members over an interview in which he claimed the party wants to win the next election by a landslide in order to allow Thaksin Shinawatra to come home.

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