A Lambaste Movement Amplifies Against the Regime

The motion is expected to be filed within the next fortnight and the no-confidence session could be held in parallel next month. In a departure from previous charters, the current constitution limits the censorship debate to only once a year. The cap is based on the assumption that a regular censorship session might interrupt the activities of the state. In addition, no-confidence debates spaced over a year would reasonably allow the opposition time to plan and pull together a vigorous attack against selected members of the cabinet to be mounted.

In fact, some opponents, however, suggested that it might be prudent for them to keep their horses on the censorship topic for the time being. They believed that the resurgence of pandemic diseases had drawn the attention of people away from politics and that the problem of censorship could backfire on them unless the opposition could engineer the sort of legislative assault that would render the government indefensible. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his cabinet ministers faced a grill; not only did they comfortably survive the no-confidence vote, but they experienced a rare spectacle in which the now-defunct Future Forward Party openly pilloried the competing Pheu Thai Party for allegedly messing up time slots.

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