PM invokes Article 44 to appoint general as Pattaya mayor
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Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, in his capacity as head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), has invoked his absolute powers under the interim charter’s Article 44 to appoint Pol Maj-General Anan Charoenchasri as Pattaya City mayor.
Order number 6/2017, which was published in the Royal Gazette yesterday with immediate effect, stated that the Pattaya City administration, a special local administrative organisation, needed a highly effective chief executive.
The term of the previous mayor, Ittipol Khunpluem, expired last June and a permanent secretary of the city had been serving as acting mayor, because NCPO orders prohibited a new election from being held.
