BANGKOK, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Two factions inside Thailand's Palang Pracharath Party on Tuesday backed down from persistent calls for cabinet seats.
Leaders of the Palang Pracharath MPs for upper northeastern provinces and the Palang Pracharath MPs for southern provinces agreed to stop pressing for cabinet seats after holding talks with Palang Pracharath MP Thammanat Phromphao who claimed to speak on behalf of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha at a Bangkok hotel on Tuesday.
Thammanat told reporters after the talks that members of those factions in the leading coalition party will be given "political posts" instead of cabinet seats.
Thammanat also said the plans and schemes which they have promised to do during electoral campaigns in their respective constituencies will be adopted as government policies.
Palang Pracharath MP Ekarat Changlao, who claimed to have 20 MPs under command of his upper northeastern faction, insisted that they feared the new government might fail to carry out the policies which they had promised to their constituents. He said his faction hoped the prime minister would manage to pick the right person for the right job.
Suchart Chantharachotikul, leader of the faction which claimed to have 13 southern MPs under its command, denied that his group had pressed for a cabinet seat and said the party leadership had never responded to questions about plans and schemes which they had earlier pledged to their constituents.
