Pita Urges Unity After Thai Coalition Squabbles Over House Speaker Job
- Move Forward, Pheu Thai both pressing for house speaker post
- Pita says coalition should focus on government formation
Pita Limjaroenrat
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The coalition of pro-democracy parties that swept the Thai election this month should stop public haggling over the house speaker’s post and instead focus on forming a government to end nearly a decade of military-backed rule, its leader said.
The dispute between Move Forward and Pheu Thai — the largest parties in the coalition — over whose nominee should be speaker of the House of Representatives is a “minor issue compared to the mission entrusted to us by the people,” Pita Limjaroenrat, the bloc’s prime minister candidate, said on Twitter on Friday.