THAILAND - Members of the Pheu Thai Party including former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, ousted in the May 22 military takeover, met for the first time.
Thursday at the cremation ceremony of a former minister.
Several ‘red shirt’ members also attended the ceremony.
Among them was Nattawut Saikua, former deputy commerce minister.
A number of members of the major opposition Democrat Party also attended the ceremony held at a Buddhist temple on the Bangkok Key members of the party and also former ministers who attended the cremation ceremony of ex-minister of Science and Technology Phiraphan Phalusuk, were deputy prime minister Plodprasop Suraswadi, deputy prime minister and commerce minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan, and labour minister Pol Capt Chalerm Yubamrung.
Several key members and ministers of the Pheu Thai Party met again Thursday night as they attended the US Independence Day Party, held at a Bangkok hotel.
In another development, the National Council for Peace and Order which seized power in the coup issued an order transferring several high ranking civil servants.
Among them was Pol Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen who was removed from his post as secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board to perform duties only at the Royal Thai Police.
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