The spotlight is on Friday's Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) general assembly in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen, when controversial MP Thamanat Prompow is strongly tipped to become the ruling party's secretary-general.
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Anti-government sentiment has advanced to such a point where a term has been coined to amplify the opponents disdain of the administration: Prayutocracy .
The suffix cracy was popularised by critics of the Thaksin Shinawatra government, who invented the term Thaksinocracy which, as one analyst put it, sums up governmental excesses. These included cronyism, conflicts of interest, irregularities and large-scale solidifying of political power.
The term was adopted by protesters to intensify their attack against Thaksin towards the end of his administration which was overthrown in September 2006 by a military coup headed by army chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who later became president of the Administrative Reform Council.
Cabinet ministers, MPs enter Covid quarantine
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published : 7 Apr 2021 at 11:09
5 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, seated centre, with new cabinet ministers at Government House in Bangkok on March 29. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)
Several cabinet ministers and all Bhumjaithai Party MPs have begun 14-day quarantine after being in close contact with new Covid-19 cases.
Natreeya Taweewong, adviser to the prime minister, said on Wednesday that the ministers who took the leave were Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Sri-on, his deputy Mananya Thaiset, Education Minister Trinuch Thienthong and her deputies Khunying Kalaya Sophonpanich and Kanokwan Vilawan.
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