PM hospitalised with food poisoning and absent from cabinet meeting
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday is absent from the weekly cabinet meeting after suffering from food poisoning.
Yingluck was admitted to the Rama IX Hospital early Tuesday. Doctors in charge of her case will hold a press briefing this morning.
Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit chaired the meeting on her behalf.
This was the second time that Yingluck was absent from the cabinet meeting. On November 15, she was stranded in Sing Buri province after visiting flood-hit victims. Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung chaired the meeting as Yongyuth was with Yingluck in Sing Buri.
The Nov 15 meeting became controversial as the cabinet considered royal pardon bill for convicted in commemoration of HM the King’s birthday on December 5.
The bill draft was reportedly amended to cover Yingluck’s brother; fugitive ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra. Yingluck’s absence from the meeting was criticised of being a plot to distance herself from the matter.
