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Thai PM: Last Cabinet meeting paves way for general election
BANGKOK, May 4 (TNA) - Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva insisted that the last meeting of the Thai Cabinet on Tuesday paved the way for the country's next general election in coming months.
Abhisit told reporters on Wednesday that his Cabinet needs to address more than 200 pending issues, as the 2007 Constitution bars a caretaker government, after a House dissolution, from considering and approving any issue to be obliged by the next administration after a new general election.
The Thai premier acknowledged that his government needs to approve pending plans and projects, each funded by a certain state budget, including those on salary rise of government and state enterprises' employees, on assistance to recent flood victims and rehabilitation of flood-hit areas in Thailand's southern region and on new procurements of the Thai Ministry of Defence.
Abhisit's remarks were in response to public criticisms against his Cabinet's last, but marathon, all-day meeting, in which more than 100 billion baht from state budget were approved.
Meanwhile, the Thai Democrat premier did not respond to media inquiry on whether he had submitted a royal decree on the House dissolution to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej for the Thai monarch's approval in a royal command. (TNA)
Abhisit told reporters on Wednesday that his Cabinet needs to address more than 200 pending issues, as the 2007 Constitution bars a caretaker government, after a House dissolution, from considering and approving any issue to be obliged by the next administration after a new general election.
The Thai premier acknowledged that his government needs to approve pending plans and projects, each funded by a certain state budget, including those on salary rise of government and state enterprises' employees, on assistance to recent flood victims and rehabilitation of flood-hit areas in Thailand's southern region and on new procurements of the Thai Ministry of Defence.
Abhisit's remarks were in response to public criticisms against his Cabinet's last, but marathon, all-day meeting, in which more than 100 billion baht from state budget were approved.
Meanwhile, the Thai Democrat premier did not respond to media inquiry on whether he had submitted a royal decree on the House dissolution to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej for the Thai monarch's approval in a royal command. (TNA)
