PAD leaders at Thammasat University

Members of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) yesterday voiced their support for the establishment of a political party in a bid to establish the so-called “New Politics” in Thailand.
Several ten thousands of PAD members yesterday rallied at the football stadium of Thammasat University’s Rangsit Campus to mark the first anniversary of last year’s 193-day-long protest against the attempts by the then governments to amend the kingdom’s constitution and to dissolve a special agency investigating alleged corruption cases against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and five Cabinet members yesterday comfortably won in a no-confidence vote after two-day censure debate in the parliament.
Prime Minister Abhisit, Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij, Deputy Finance Minister Pradit Phataraprasit, Interior Minister Chavarat Charnvirakul and Deputy Interior Minister Boonjong Wongtrairat were accused of malfeasance and violation of the Constitution by the opposition led by Puea Thai Party.
Out of 449 members of the House of Representatives, Abhisit, as well as Korn, Pradit, Chavarat and Boonjong, received 246 votes of confidence each while Kasit, …

Ruling Democrat Party and its coalition partners won 20 out of 29 parliamentary seats in the by-election in 22 provinces throughout Thailand yesterday.
Democrat Party candidates won a total of seven seats, one each in Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom Province, Ratchaburi Province, Lamphun Province, Samut Prakarn Province, Saraburi Province and Singburi Province. Its partners Chart Thai Pattana Party got ten seats while Puea Pandin Party  three seats.
Meanwhile, two opposition parties, Puea Thai Party and Pracharaj Party, won five and four seats respectively.
However, one of the successful candidate of Pracharaj Party was …

Bangkok City Hall
More than 900,000 eligible voters in Bangkok today elected M.R.Sukhumbhand Paribatra of Democrat Party to become the governor of Thailand’s capital city.
The Bangkok governor election was organised by the Election Commission (EC) to replace Apirak Kosayodhin, also from Democrat Party, whom had been re-elected for his second four-year term last October but decided to resign a month later after the National Counter Corruption Commission announced to press charges against Apirak and 10 other persons implicated in alleged irregularities in Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s fire truck and boat purchase scheme.
According …

The new government of Thailand has officially been established after His Majesty the King yesterday gave a royal endorsement for the country’s 59th government which had been proposed by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
Abhisit’s Democrat Party took 18 seats in the 36-seat Cabinet, including the ministers of defence, foreign affairs and finance. The rest of the seats are four from Chart Thai Pattana Party, five from Friends of Newin Group, four from Puea Pandin Party, two from Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana Party, one from Social Action Party and two from …