The ruling Pheu Thai Party is encountering resistance from the military to its idea of transferring businesses controlled by the armed forces to other agencies.
The House of Representatives set up an ad hoc committee in late January to study ways to remove business out of the military’s control in a bid to block avenues of unregulated profit and corruption, and get the armed forces to stay focused on their main duty, which is national defense.
The 25-member committee chaired by Jirayu Huangsub from the Pheu Thai Party comprised politicians and academics, including Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, former leader of the dissolved Future Forward Party, Puangthong Pawakapan, a political scientist from Chulalongkorn University, and Bencha Saengchan, an opposition MP from the Move Forward Party.
Politicians from the government side were at odds with the stance of the opposition.
While the…
