Padipat angling to retain deputy speaker’s job

Padipat Santipada has admitted he wants to keep the post of House deputy speaker and that one way of doing that is to be ejected from the Move Forward Party, which would allow the MFP to take up its role of opposition leader in the parliament.

Mr Padipat said the issue would be made clear after the MFP elects a new leader and executive board on Saturday.

The…