The Prime Minister revealed that he will speed up the establishment of the Cabinet within this week.

"Paethongtarn", the Prime Minister, revealed that she will get the cabinet this week, admitting that it will take longer to check the qualifications, fearing that the same mistake will happen again, dismissing the news that Pheu Thai will take back the Interior Ministry seat, asking to talk to "Anutin" first. Prime Minister Paethongtarn Shinawatra gave an interview before attending the first class of the National Defense Course for Future Executives, or NDC, regarding the formation of a new cabinet. She said that this week she will coordinate to talk with the coalition parties. She will try to complete the appointment of the cabinet within this week and will try to talk to all parties. While the proportion of ministers of the Pheu Thai Party will be discussed in detail with the team tomorrow, today (19 August) there has been no discussion and in the afternoon there is a meeting at the Pheu Thai Party, which is an internal party matter before the meeting on the appointment of the Cabinet. When asked whethe r the proportion of the cabinet will still be mixed between old and new members, Ms. Paethongtarn said that she had not discussed the details yet. The discussion will start tomorrow and there will be progress in order. It will not be finished tomorrow, but within 1 week, she will discuss with the coalition parties to complete it. She also emphasized that the appointment of this cabinet requires special consideration of qualifications in order not to make any mistakes and not to take a long time. Therefore, it is necessary to quickly complete the appointment of the cabinet in order to submit the qualifications to the relevant agencies for examination because this time many people suggested that the examination of qualifications would take longer. When asked again whether the cabinet appointment may be quick but the qualification examination may take longer, the Prime Minister admitted that it is because everyone is concerned about this issue and thinks that it should not take up to 1 month to form the cabinet . When asked about the news reports that there was a lot of shaking up of positions in the Pheu Thai Party, Ms. Paethongtarn asked where she knew about it, why there was news, why there were rumors all the time. She personally did not know. When asked further whether the rumors were due to the number of people in the Pheu Thai Party being greater than the number of positions, Ms. Paethongtarn said, 'Oh, I saw it already.' However, she did not know where the news came from because it had not been decided yet and there had been no progress at all. The reporter asked further whether everyone should listen to the Prime Minister. Ms. Paethongtarn said that everyone should be like that to avoid confusion. When asked about the coalition parties, regarding the qualifications of those who will become ministers, whether to change or select to give the party the right to change or select individuals, the Prime Minister said that this matter must be sent to the Council of State for examination according to regulation s, but he asked to see first what procedures have been laid out. The coalition parties should also consider to some extent, and ultimately, it is the duty of the Council of State to examine how everything will ultimately turn out, and in the end, there must be shared responsibility. As for the rumor that the Pheu Thai Party will take back the Interior Ministry seat, will this cause problems for the Bhumjaithai Party? Ms. Paethongtarn said that they have not discussed it yet. When asked if it was possible for the Pheu Thai Party to reclaim the Interior Minister's seat, Ms. Phaethar said that she would have to discuss and reach an agreement with Mr. Anutin Charnvirakul, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, as leader of the Bhumjaithai Party, but she confirmed that this matter had not been discussed as reported in the news. As for the position of Secretary to the Prime Minister, will it still be Dr. Prommin Lertsuriyadej? Ms. Paethongtarn laughed before saying that she would like to announce it at the same time as the position of Minister. When asked if the proportion of the coalition parties would remain the same, Ms. Paethongtarn said that all the details would be available within this week. She did not want to answer today because it would be too soon. She wanted to talk to other people first. Source: Thai News Agency