“I hope everything will be fine. We want to start working already,” he added.
The legal process requires new Cabinet members to perform a swearing-in ceremony during their audience with His Majesty the King and for the new government to announce its policy statement to Parliament before it can officially start working.
Regarding a remark by caretaker Deputy Premier Wissanu Kreangam, who is in charge of the outgoing government’s legal affairs, that the new administration could start working in late September, Srettha said: “We will try. But I want that to come sooner because there are many urgent things to do.”
Meanwhile, Pheu Thai MP and senior politician Sutin Klungsang on Saturday declined to confirm media reports that he would become the next education minister.
However, the veteran politician said that he was prepared to assume the office if he was appointed to it….
