Thailand's new Prime Minister promises to tackle Cambodia border conflict, constitutional reforms

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Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul delivers the argumentation  statements of the Council of Ministers to the Parliament, astatine  the Parliament House, successful  Bangkok, Thailand, September 29, 2025.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul delivers the argumentation statements of the Council of Ministers to the Parliament, astatine the Parliament House, successful Bangkok, Thailand, September 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters

Thailand's caller Prime Minister told lawmakers connected Monday (September 29, 2025) that his authorities would code the country's economical woes, find solutions to the ongoing borderline struggle with Cambodia done diplomacy and propulsion for a caller and much antiauthoritarian constitution.

Anutin Charnvirakul faces a self-imposed deadline. He had promised to telephone elections successful 4 months successful speech for the People's Party — which holds the astir seats successful Parliament — supporting his bid to go Prime Minister. He was elected to Parliament earlier this month.

The enactment has a progressive level and has agelong sought to alteration the existing constitution imposed nether subject rule, saying it wants to marque it much democratic. Mr. Anutin had promised to telephone a referendum for an elected constituent assembly to draught a caller charter.

He said successful his inaugural code successful Parliament connected Monday that his authorities volition enactment the referendum and nationalist information to uphold the country's law monarchy.

Mr. Anutin besides promised to tackle corruption and transgression and “restore religion and happiness to the Thai people.” Mr. Anutin is constricted successful what helium tin bash by the four-month deadline, but besides the presumption of his woody with the People's Party, which declared it would enactment arsenic the Opposition successful the Legislature, perchance voting against Mr. Anutin's initiatives.

The Thai authorities volition besides question to relieve household indebtedness and trim the rising outgo of electricity, gasoline and transport, and determination to alleviate fallouts from commercialized wars and U.S. tariff policy, Mr Anutin said.

He told lawmakers helium volition propulsion for a referendum connected whether Thailand should revoke the existing memorandum of knowing connected borderline issues with Cambodia.

The 2 neighbours engaged successful a five-day equipped struggle successful precocious July that killed dozens of civilians and soldiers and displaced much than 2,60,000 people. The countries' competing territorial claims person not been resolved, and the hazard of further warring remains precocious contempt a cease-fire agreement.

Mr. Anutin besides said the authorities volition ace down connected amerciable gambling and strive to amended the country's earthy catastrophe alert system, beforehand cleanable vigor and tackle aerial pollution.

Mr. Anutin, who heads the Bhumjaithai Party, succeeded the Pheu Thai Party's Paetongtarn Shinawatra. She was dismissed aft being recovered blameworthy of morals violations implicit a politically compromising telephone telephone with Cambodia's Senate President Hun Sen.

Published - September 29, 2025 02:20 p.m. IST

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