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9 Sep, 8 tweets, 5 min read
A major shake-up in the @prayutofficial govt. Thamanat is/was a coalition enforcer who rose through the ranks of the (@pprpthailand despite his Australian drug trafficking conviction) who commands dozens of MPs. @DrNarumonP is also a senior party member. Looks like a faction war
Outgoing Dep-Agric. Min Thamanat tells reporters at parliament he’s resigning out of his own and has been thinking about it “for a few months already”. He was rumored to have led a failed attempt to topple PM @prayutofficial at last week’s no-confidence vote.
More background on last week’s “plot” against PM @prayutofficial in the no-confidence vote that wasn’t in this thread below.

It seems that Thamanat has overplayed his hand with this gambit - but he’s still sec-gen of the ruling @pprpthailand.
PM @prayutofficial, who was speaking at field ICU for #COVID19 patients at almost the same time as the sacking of two deputy ministers, was evasive on questions regarding the said sacking of two deputy ministers.
Thamanat (Agriculture) and @DrNarumonP (Labor) were part of a quartet of Dep-Min w/ Atirat Ratanasate (Transport) and until last week Santi Promphat (Finance) who were gaining influence and control in the ruling @pprpthailand at the side of party leader Dep-PM Prawit. (cont.)
(cont.) However, it was Dep-Finance Minister Santi who claimed the “4 ช.” (from “รัฐมนตรีช่วย” or deputy minister) “doesn’t exist” anymore after last week’s no-confidence vote, which saw PM @prayutofficial and five other cabinet minister passing largely unharmed.
It’s difficult to say what is going to happen next since much of the political analysis saw Thamanat being a constant in the @pprpthailand party and the ruling coalition and an important part to lay the groundwork for the next elections which may happen in 2023 or sooner.
One thing is for sure: this split was not amicable.

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THREAD: Today, a joint-session of the Thai parliament will attempt to vote on const. amendments - again. It’s the bare minimum of reforms the elected MPs could agree on, but the senators appointed by the prev. military govt could fail it - again. Here’s what we’re dealing with.
1) First a small history lesson: Following the 2014 military coup, the junta at that time (led by then army chief @prayutofficial) commissioned a new constitution that aims to prevent what they and their like-minded proponents called “parliamentary dictatorship”.
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LIVE-THREAD: Thai PM @prayutofficial is scheduled to hold a televised address this evening at 6pm BK following the national anthem.

Follow along for live updates of the speech.
PM @prayutofficial: “With the rapid progress of the vaccination program, I would like to update on the roadmap ahead of our recovery from #COVID19.”
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THREAD: Chulabhorn Royal Academy (CRA) will procure Sinopharm #COVID19 vaccines as a supplementary option to the govt’s vaccine rollout, which is more and more criticized for being chaotic. But even more chaotic was the news of a company claiming to supply to them…
1) Background: CRA consists of medical research centers and is chaired by Princess Chulabhorn. Royal Gazette announced this week that it can procure #COIVD19 vaccines. It’s seen as a slight against the govt’s increasingly messy mass vaccine policy, set to start Jun 7.
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THREAD: So here’s where the rumor came from that @pfizer’s #COVID19 vaccine is already in #Thailand even though @fdathai has not received any paperwork for approval yet and just rebuked this.

Let’s go down the rabbit hole…
1) It all started with self-exiled fmr Thai PM @ThaksinLive claiming in a live stream on Tuesday night that a small amount of @pfizer’s #COVID19 vaccine is already in #Thailand and given to a “probably a small group”.
2) @ThaksinLive claims that “it’s all online already for people to see” and points to @nytimes’ #COVID19 Vaccine Tracker (nytimes.com/interactive/20…) and @TrackVaccines.

This is were things start to fall apart…
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THREAD: Thai PM will hold a televised address at 6pm local on the recent surge of #COVID19 cases, as over 1,000 cases have been linked to a seafood market in Samut Sakorn and migrant workers there.

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21 Dec 20
#COVID19TH a UPDATE (21 Dec 2020)

- 382* new confirmed #COVID19 cases (5,289 total)
- 17 discharged (4,053)
- 1,176 in hospital
- no new deaths (60)

*360 new cases found in migrant worker dorm in Samut Sakon (over 90% asymptomatic). “More confirmed cases there are expected.”
On top of the 360 migrant workers tested positive for #COVID19, 12 out of 14 local transmissions have been traced back to the Same Sakon seafood market where the current cluster is.
As for the migrant workers in Samut Sakon, they’ll be all quarantined in the same facility since the majority is asymptomatic, taking cues from a similar situation in SG. “This will take a few weeks to resolve,” says Dr Taweesin spokesman of the govt’s #COVID19 task force.
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