PM sprays alcohol on reporters to avoid questions
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Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha sprayed alcohol on reporters to avoid questions about cabinet reshuffle at a press conference following the cabinet meeting.
He is set to reshuffle the Cabinet after three members – Digital Economy and Society (DES) Minister Puttipong Punnakanta, Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan and Deputy Transport Minister Thaworn Senneam – were sentenced to jail for their role in protests which led to the coup that ousted an elected government in 2014.
“The new ministers should be highly competent and capable of pulling Thailand out of the middle-income trap,” said Saowaruj Rattanakhamfu, senior research fellow at Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI).
Saowaruj said the government must prioritise national interest over political wrangling in the main ruling party in choosing replacements for Puttipong and Nataphol.
“Their successors need to be extremely competent because the Education and DES portfolios are very important,” she pointed out.
“It is really unfortunate that the leaders of these two ministries change so often, because it disrupts the continuity of their policies,” she said, noting that DES and education ministers typically last less than two years.
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