Watanya Bunnag urges MPs to scrap a 12-billion-baht energy allocation, saying it duplicates emergency borrowing and could escape parliamentary scrutiny.

Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas says the 400-billion-baht emergency loan decree is vital to sustain Thailand’s economy, ease the impact of rising global oil prices and accelerate the country’s energy transition before a Constitutional Court ruling on July 9.