Thai pm survives no confidence vote as government looks for stability for years to come
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By Ali Baidali
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Thailand will hold no confidence votes over the opposition National League For Democracy’s plans for a new parliamentary majority, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Thursday, in a sign that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had ruled out any change to the party’s agenda and its plans for a “longer life”.
Chan-ocha, a for바카라mer guerrilla fighter and a political novice who has been in power for more than a decade, announced the resignation on his Twitter account late on Wednesday, days after two members of the party staged a failed attempt to unseat him from parliament last week.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Thursday he was resigning from his position as Prime Minister of Thailand after the country’s second-largest party, the National League For Democracy (NLD), failed to win a vote of confidence in parliament, despite taking a lead in opinion polls leading up to the vote.
Prime Minister Prayuth was seen entering the office of the ruling junta leader, Prayuth Chan-ocha, in Bangkok. Prayuth’s spokesman in the wake of the resignations said the Prime Minister had resigned from his post whil바카라사이트e the decision to withdraw was in the hands of the Prime Minister’s Office.
Chan-ocha said the NLD will also be formed a new national alliance based on an alliance of “other parties”.
“I told them that I would resign when that happens, I am leaving the country,” Chan-ocha said. “I am nojarvees.comt doing any political job anymore. As of now, the people have their rights. That’s all.”
He declined to give further details about the reasons for the failure of the coup, but expressed anger about the way that the two leaders had handled the controversy and the lack of transparency in the opposition campaign.
“There is no transparency, there is no care for the people who were harmed by the coup,” Chan-ocha said.
He said he hoped the country’s leaders would return the respect to them.
In a speech before parliament on Thursday morning, opposition leaders, led by the former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, and the president, Suthep Thau
