- Published: 02/10/2012 at 03:05 PM
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Tuesday that she had assigned ministers to temporarily take over the responsibilities of Yongyuth Wichaidit, who has resigned as deputy prime minister and interior minister.
The government had to concentrate on the issues at hand, and especially at this moment the preparations to cope with a tropical storm expected to hit the country from Oct 5-8, she added.
Authorities have been instructed to discharge water from dams, dredge canals and clean up drains. Water pumps had been moved to spots east of Bangkok to drain water from flood-prone areas.Ms Yingluck has assigned four cabinet ministers to take over Mr Yongyuth’s job.Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung, who is responsible for the Interior Ministry including the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre, and Deputy Interior Minister Chuchart Harnsawat have been assigned to take on the responsibilities of the interior minister in an acting capacity.Mr Yongyuth also oversaw the Transport and Social Development and Human Security ministries before he stepped down on Oct 1.
The prime minister directed Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong and Deputy Prime Minister Yutthasak Sasiprapa to take over these two agencies.
Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Natthawut Saikua supported the prime minister’s decision and denied that the red shirts had exerted any pressure on Ms Yingluck to allocate cabinet seats to their members.The key leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship insisted that some red-shirt leaders, including Jatuporn Prompan, should be given a chance to be a minister in the cabinet reshuffle.
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- Discussion 1 : 02/10/2012 at 10:49 PM
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This governemnt reshuffle reminds me of a story of a bunch of rats that took over a ship and ate the crew .The ship wandered at sea for weeks until lit finally hit a light house on an island where the starving rats jumped off and tried to eat the the light house keepers until they they rescued and the rats towed out to sea on a barge and light on fire .When will our rescuers come .
- Discussion 2 : 02/10/2012 at 09:10 PM
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Yes, having a convicted criminal (again) as a minister will be a sad day for Thailand. Jatuporn should never be allowed to have a position like this. It should be done on merit.
- Discussion 3 : 02/10/2012 at 08:55 PM
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So according to YS the government is going to concentrate on solving the country's problems. Phew!
We can be thankful this pesky call for a cabinet reshuffle came along. It seems it has forced the government to cast around for something to do for the country.
But it is a bit mystifying why they have waited until we are in the middle of the rains with a tropical storm imminent to start talking about dredging canals and cleaning drains.
- Discussion 4 : 02/10/2012 at 08:38 PM
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Some red shirt leaders should be given a chance...
And why exactly should this be? What GOOD exactly did they do for the country? Somebody can list anything?
- Discussion 5 : 02/10/2012 at 06:04 PM
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it will be a very sad day when Jatuporn Prompan is give a cabinet post
There are many other far better then him
Now there are three groups
PTP Party
Red Shirts mob
111 group the Taksin followers
Be intresting how the Goverment will unfold now
- Discussion 6 : 02/10/2012 at 05:48 PM
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“The key leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship insisted that some red-shirt leaders, including Jatuporn Prompan, should be given a chance to be a minister in the cabinet reshuffle.”
I don’t know but “should be given a chance” sound for me similar to: We know they are not qualified, but they are our friends and no one else wants to employ them so please give them a chance – against all odds.
I would not mind if someone would give Jatuporn and others a chance to serve coffee somewhere or maybe he can help to harvest some rice. Yes, he should have a job so that maybe he feels better about himself – he really needs that. But why should someone with no relevant experience get a job with a budget of billions and responsibility for at least hundreds of people? Who gives Thailand a chance with people like him?
- Discussion 7 : 02/10/2012 at 04:36 PM
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There’s nothing wrong with the rice pledging scheme in general, the academics petition to the court is apparently groundless and as I understand it, was merely more a prod for the government to review the scheme.
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