"censure debate"

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha gave the worst answers among ministers targeted in the latest censure debate, according to an opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida).

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and 10 targeted ministers easily survived Saturday’s no-confidence vote in Parliament but failed miserably in a parallel “people’s vote”.

MPs from the opposition Move Forward party placed sandalwood cremation flowers at the prime minister's podium ahead of the censure vote in the House of Representatives on Saturday.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and the 10 targeted ministers sailed through the no-confidence vote on Saturday. The votes were:

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha held forth for more than an hour listing his government’s achievements in the final session of the censure debate on Friday night.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha insisted on Friday that he had no plan to reshuffle his Cabinet after the no-confidence debate this week.

The government vows to spend its remaining 250 days in office working hard to pull Thailand out of crisis, even though it insists the economy is stable and can withstand pressures from rising prices and inflation.

The government is making constant efforts to boost the country's digital economy, Digital Economy and Society Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn said on Wednesday.

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob vehemently denied on Wednesday that he owned a construction firm that won 1 billion baht worth of projects from his ministry in the past two years.

The Buri Charoen Construction Co Ltd, which won projects worth over 1 billion baht from Transport Ministry, came under attack in Parliament with the opposition targeting Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob on Tuesday.

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob was grilled by opposition MPs, who accused him of concealing his assets and allegedly using a nominee to hide ownership of a company to win ministry construction projects.

The opposition leader lambasted Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha for leading an ailing government that has done more harm than good to the country, as the censure debate kicked off on Tuesday.