Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Monday currently it was not time to reshuffle the cabinet as the government had prioritized solving the country's political crisis as the most important one.
Once the political problem was resolved, the government would then consider the necessary of the cabinet reshuffle, Abhisit said, the website by Thai-language newspaper Krungthep Turakit reported.
The Prime Minister's denial came amid talks that the coalition parties were unhappy with Kobsak Sabhavasu, Deputy Prime Minister overseeing economic affairs, saying that Kobsak intervened too much in working of other coalition parties.
"Kobsak won't be removed as the deputy prime minister, but he will be required to meet and explain problems," said Abhisit.
In a bid to solve the domestic political crisis, last week Abhisit disclosed the government would convene a special joint session of Parliament, which was scheduled tentatively on Wednesday and Thursday, to debate the country's recent political turmoil.
On, April 12, the government declared the state of emergency in capital Bangkok and some districts of five nearby provinces, citing the escalating violence due to scattered anti-government rallies.
The scattered-anti-government rallies ended on April 14 after the army crackdowns to disperse the protestors.
(Xinhua News Agency April 20, 2009)
