Cast out into the cold
Thamanat: Broke ties with Prawit
It is now apparent who was more expendable between the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) and the United Thai Nation (UTN) Party in the eyes of Pheu Thai.
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Cast out into the cold
Thamanat: Broke ties with Prawit
It is now apparent who was more expendable between the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) and the United Thai Nation (UTN) Party in the eyes of Pheu Thai.
Although the two parties were looked upon as two tributaries of the same river, their origins were starkly different, which ultimately explained how dispensable they were.
The new cabinet has seen itself take the unusual step of incorporating just half a party in the government. The party in question is the beleaguered and fractured PPRP.
Once the most powerful party in the Prayut Chan-o-cha administrations, the PPRP shrank to become a medium-sized party with 40 MPs to its name in the general election last year.
During the course of the Paetongtarn cabinet formation, the PPRP experienced its worst internal rift yet which culminated in the…