"Chaturon Chaisang"

The Thai Raksa Chart party will suspend major campaign rallies to allow its leadership to focus on preparations to defend itself against the dissolution demanded by the Election Commission (EC), the party’s chief strategist Chaturon Chaisang said on Thursday.

PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha and his government yesterday came under attack from politicians taking advantage of the junta’s lifting of political restrictions on Tuesday.

SINCE THE 2017 Constitution was never designed to favour the party, Pheu Thai is now seeing its members joining other parties, Pheu Thai secretary-general Phumtham Wechayachai said yesterday after one of the party’s former core leaders, Chaturon Chaisang, decided to shift to Thai Raksa Chart.

Key figures in the Pheu Thai Party including Chaturon Chaisang and red-shirt leaders will today switch to its offshoot, the new Thai Raksa Chart party, an inside source said yesterday.

PROMINENT POLITICIANS yesterday voiced confidence that the next election would take place by February as promised by the junta leader.

Ahead of the third anniversary of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) seizing power following a coup, key Pheu Thai figure Chaturon Chaisang has launched a stinging criticism of its performance, saying it had failed to resolve the country’s problems and had instead compounded issues by its poor handling.

Key Pheu Thai party figure Chaturon Chaisang said he hoped Friday’s court decision to cancel a revocation order on his three passports would remind authorities to not take unnecessary measures that deprive people of their rights.

DEMOCRAT PARTY leader Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday urged Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha not to be too sceptical about politicians after what he called the PM’s “suspicious” reaction to a politician who offered political solutions for the country.

Pheu Thai politician taken in for fourth "Attitude Adjustment"

Chaturon Chaisang, last leader of the now defunct Thai Rak Thai party, which won the first major landslide vote in the country’s history in 2005 before it was dissolved and born again as Pheu Thai, keeps a low profile, but never stops discussing politics,

VETERAN politician Chaturon Chaisang has claimed the Constitution Drafting Commission is paving the way for non-elected prime ministers and the "dominance of an extra-bureaucratic force".