BANGKOK — Thailand’s opposition People’s Party is eyeing this week’s annual censure debate in parliament to grill the governing coalition over its waning appetite to reform the 2017 constitution, a legacy of the last milit junta to perpetuate an ultra-conservative grip on power.
Opposition lawmakers will have Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, whose Pheu Thai Party heads the coalition, in their crosshairs as they debate a no-confidence motion on Monday and Tuesday. They have singled out language in Pheu Thai’s policy document that the 38-year-old prime minister revealed after beginning her term last August. The passage was meant to accelerate the constitutional change process.
