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Best of friends or enemies?

Pheu Thai Party leader Cholnan Srikaew shakes hands with Move Forward Leader Pita Limjaroenrat after a meeting of the eight coalition parties at the MFP headquarters in Bangkok on July 2. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

The Pheu Thai and the Move Forward parties will have an adversarial relationship right through to the next election and beyond, according to a political analyst.

Both parties have a knife behind their back, ready to stab one another.

It is thought the Pheu Thai Party has been suspicious of the Move Forward (MFP), its closest ally, since before the general election, the analyst said.

On the surface, Pheu Thai and the MFP have positioned themselves as like-minded, pro-democratic entities who went through more than…

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