Yingluck appoints coalition whip panel
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday appointed a new 64-member coalition coordination committee on parliamentary affairs with Pheu Thai MP Amnuay Klungpha serving as the chief whip.
The new panel was appointed after Udomdej Ratanasathien resigned as chief coalition whip on November 26 before the end of the previous House session.
The 63 other whips come from Pheu Thai and its coalition partners. The panel will be in charge of coodinating parliamentary affairs among MPs, senators, the government and political parties.
Yingluck also assigned nine Cabinet members and MPs to serve as advisers to the coalition coordination committee. They are PM’s Office Minister Varathep Ratanakorn, Science Minister Woravat Auapinyakul, Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom, Deputy Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew, Ayutthaya MPs Prasert Chanruangthong and Witthaya Buranasiri, Chaiyaphum MP Surawit Khonsomboon and Bangkok MP Wicharn Minchainon as well as the former chief whip, Udomdej.
