Opposition parties to vote against supplementary budget for “digital wallet”

Opposition parties resolved today to vote against the supplementary budget bill, on the grounds that the digital wallet scheme is not worth the huge expenditure, estimated at 450 billion baht, and will not help to boost the GDP. 

The spending on the scheme may also be against the law and will set a bad precedent for national budgeting and fiscal spending in the future, according to the opposition parties.

Meanwhile, Move Forward Party’s deputy leader Sirikanya Tansakul, called on coalition parties today to vote against the digital wallet scheme, the flagship policy of the Pheu Thai Party, otherwise they may be accused of being accomplices in violating the law and could put the country at serious financial risk.

Today, the Lower House debated the government’s mid-year budget bill, seeking a 122 billion baht supplementary budget to offset the shortfall in funding for…