Mr Wan Muhamad Noor Matha, who leads Prachachat Party, will be put forward as House Speaker. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK – The weeks-long tussle between two major coalition partners over the role of House Speaker has reached a breakthrough after both parties agreed to nominate a third allied party leader for the post.
Meanwhile, MFP will take the First Deputy House Speaker seat, while Pheu Thai will fill the role of the Second Deputy Speaker, he said at an eleventh hour press conference on Monday evening.Pheu Thai deputy leader Phumtham Wechayachai said that his party had suggested Mr Wan Muhamad for the seat as he was a neutral candidate, and the move could resolve the dispute between them.
MFP, which campaigned on progressive and liberal policies, was the winner of the May election with 151 seats; Pheu Thai won 141 seats. The two parties bagged the bulk of the 500 MP seats and had overwhelmingly beaten the outgoing government parties that havePrachachat, which has its supporter base in the far south of the country, is the third largest in the coalition bloc, with nine MPs.
Addressing the elected MPs, the King said they had been tasked with electing laws in the interest of the country and its citizens. “The prosperity of the country will depend on your intelligence, ability and honesty,” he said. However, the coalition must muster at least 376 votes from the 750-member Parliament, comprising 500 elected MPs and 250 senators.
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