Nation Thailand
Bhumjaithai seeks renewed popularity through southern development
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The first off-site Cabinet meeting, or ‘mobile Cabinet’ meeting, under the ‘Anutin 2 government’ is taking place in Hat Yai district, Songkhla, from August 31 to September 1.
Key facts
- Part 1 comprises 41 necessary and urgent projects that are ready for immediate implementation, with a combined budget of THB1.598 billion covering all five provinces.
- Part 2 comprises 55 policy proposals seeking government support.
- That came after a key flagship policy, the THB1 trillion ‘Land Bridge Project’, ‘collapsed completely’ in the face of opposition from several sectors, along with serious concerns from the private sector.
- Attention must now turn to a ‘key milestone’ across five southern provinces, namely Songkhla, Satun, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, where the government is seeking to add flagship projects or economic stimulus measures.
- The government’s first ‘mobile Cabinet’ meeting, being launched in the country’s axe-handle region, is therefore under scrutiny over its ‘strategic plan to develop the area and address its problems’, comprising 96 projects worth THB13.089
- The main highlights are large-scale strategic infrastructure projects in Pattani and Yala, with proposals totalling as much as THB11.491 billion
Summary
Attention must now turn to a ‘key milestone’ across five southern provinces, namely Songkhla, Satun, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, where the government is seeking to add flagship projects or economic stimulus measures.
The question is how far these can prove a turning point capable of masking the weakness in ‘public support for the government’.