Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has hit back at Move Forward deputy leader Sirikanya Tansakul, who said that the government’s decision to resort to a loan bill to procure funding for the digital wallet may be a desperate attempt to scuttle the scheme by using the Constitutional Court, because the loan bill may be deemed unconstitutional and contravene the fiscal discipline law.
“Do not judge other people by your standards. Do not politicise the honest intention and determination of the government to improve the living conditions of the people just to cause public confusion,” wrote the prime minister in his X post on Saturday morning, in response to Sirikanya’s criticism.
Sirikanya predicted that, in the end, the Thai people will not receive the 10,000 baht promised by the government, because the proposed loan bill will be struck down by the Constitutional Court. The Yingluck…
