Holding itall together
Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has, without doubt, been indispensable to the government.
In fact, he has been the tie that binds and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will come to appreciate his brother-in-arm’s role in having kept the administration intact when the opposition sets the no-confidence debate rolling in May.
For a while, the government’s survival was under threat from a deepening crack within the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP). The rift came to a head when Capt Thamanat Prompow, the former PPRP secretary-general, and 20 other MPs were booted out of the ruling party for stirring up trouble by demanding an overhaul of its executive board in what was billed as the party’s biggest power grab bid yet.
This time, though, the sheer number of MPs shown the door has left the government standing on shaky ground. It will be…
