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The opposition will question Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Wednesday regarding Friday’s attack on political activist Sirawit Serithiwat, a Pheu Thai Party MP said on Sunday.

THE SERI RUAM THAI party leader said yesterday that the drug-related arrest of a party-list MP candidate will not affect the party, as it was a personal matter.

The leader of the Seri Ruam Thai party on Wednesday said the drug-related arrest of a party-list candidate will not affect the party, saying it was a personal matter.

The opposition Pheu Thai Party on Friday pushed for a parliamentary investigation into the selection of senators, which they alleged to be unconstitutional.

Pheu Thai Party spokeswoman Ladawan Wongsriwong on Saturday warned Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha not to skip House meetings or else he would be strongly reprimanded by MPs.

The Pheu Thai Party on Monday called for the Election Commission to accept responsibility for what it claimed was improper conduct and discrimination against anti-junta politicians.

The Pheu Thai Party may replace its leader Viroj Pao-in with Chiang Mai MP Sompong Amornvivat, preparing for the parliamentary politics as leader of the opposition.

The Thaksin Shinawatra-backed Pheu Thai Party is preparing to field candidates for Speaker and said it should be given the chance to form a government.

THE SEVEN political parties that have come together to form the next government remain “strongly united” although defections of its MPs to the rival coalition are likely, a key figure in the Pheu Thai Party said yesterday.

Pheu Thai Party de facto leader Sudarat Keyuraphan said on Wednesday morning the anti-junta bloc had mustered at least 255 MPs from seven parties to form a coalition government.

Two several-term MPs of the Pheu Thai Party suffered defeat to candidates from the Future Forward and Phalang Pracharat parties in Khon Kaen in Sunday’s general election.

Two long-time champions of the Pheu Thai Party in Chiang Rai were beaten by new-face candidates of the Future Forward Party in Sunday’s general election.