The planned joint sitting of parliament to vote for a new prime minister has been indefinitely postponed awaiting a Constitutional Court ruling on the rejected renomination of Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat.

This is due to the illegal actions whatever the dopes at the court decide to conjure of the military-appointed senators and the military-monarchy alliance of rightist parties.

Pathetically, Wan Muhamad Noor Matha confirmed that parliament and constitution are unimportant when he bleated that:

Another reason for delaying the joint sitting was that many elected MPs and senators were worried they would not be able to attend ceremonies to celebrate the Kings birthday in their respective provinces on Friday if the sitting was prolonged.

Whatever the court decides/is told to decide, it is unlikely to make much difference for Pita or his party.

A minority government may well be the outcome.

All of this allows more wheeling and dealing behind closed doors that will probably do nothing to promote the interests of the people.

As the Puea Thai Party seems intent on committing electoral suicide, even sitting down with a convicted heroin smuggler, the tactics used by the military-monarchy alliance are clear.

Readers might have thought that the unelected detritus of the senate could be trusted to do their assigned task of preventing a reformist regime being elected. Perhaps they could, but it is also evident that they were threatened,

This is shown in the punishment now meted out to those who did not abstain, have a holiday, or vote against Pita Limjaroenrat. One of the countrys most despicable cretins has demanded that they be investigated.

Former senator and serial petitioner in the pay of others, Ruangkrai Leekitwattana said he has petitioned the National Anti-Corruption Commission to look into irregularities he found in a list of assets declared by six senators on May 14, 2019. Yes, thats 2019.

The senators are Kraisid Tontisirin, Saki Pithukkhumpol, Pol Lt Gen Jitti Rodbangyang, Pisan Manawapat, Wutthiphan Wichairat and Prapasri Suchantabutr.

No backsliding is to be permitted as the ruling class now moves to establish a conservative government. It wants to smash the Move Forward coalition and force Move Forward to the opposition. If that means a Puea Thai-led coalition of ant...

Prachatai reports that Royal World Thailand has used its pages to refute a video clip that seemed to show Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya discussing the ongoing political situation in Thailand, saying that it is not actually the princess.

Heres the post: https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Froyalworldthailand%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02KuYqFHmXT2JQCoDLDenQ3cWXsKr3NbGAoFTpKpgNCGTuHqkeqxkw2n7XdcQYWeFul&show_text=true&width=500

Clipped from CNA

The Prachatai report goes further, to mention that, on 21 July 2023, ultra-royalists Anon Klinkaew, self-proclaimed head of the Peoples Centre to Protect the Monarchy vigilantes, and Nopadol Prompasit, a member of the monarchist cyberbully outfi...