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Puea Thai files to impeach Abhisit

 

PM The Puea Thai party filed an impeachment motion against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Wednesday, with seven charges backing the move.

 

Puea Thai MP for Yasothon Peeraphan Palusuk led a group of about 20 party MPs to file the motion seeking the impeachment of Mr Abhisit with Senate Speaker Prasobsuk Boondej.

He presented a letter with a list of 158 MPs who backed the motion.

 

Mr Abhisit faces seven charges -- his involvement in requesting royal intervention in appointing a prime minister; siding with the People's Alliance for Democracy; his undemocratic rise to power; being a mastermind of the PAD and appointing PAD members as ministers and their advisers; intending to conceal donations made to the Democrat party; making a false report about the membership of a party member to a provincial election commission; and asking Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij to cooperate with a mobile service provider in sending text messages to its customers after he was elected prime minister.

After receiving the letter, Mr Prasobsuk said he needed 15 days to verify the names of the MPs.If all checked out he would notify the Senate and forward the case to the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

Chief government whip Chinaworn Boonyakiat said the seven charges were not strong enough to remove Mr Abhisit or to bring down the government.

 

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/137297/pm-faces-impeachment-motion

 

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Bangkok Post

14 March 2009

 

 

Spokesman defends PM's rise to power

 

 

Thepthai Senpong, spokesman of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, insisted the government came to power democratically and is not backed by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), nor soldiers as claimed by the foreign media.

 

His response came after Lee Jones, an Oxford lecturer, accused Mr Abhisit of being undemocratic and coming to power with the help of "street politicians" who were rewarded with ministerial posts. Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia editor of The Times, also wrote a commentary attacking Mr Abhisit.

 

He said, however, that the media had the right to express their opinions.

 

 

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Bangkok Post

14 March 2009

 

 

Spokesman defends PM's rise to power

 

 

Thepthai Senpong, spokesman of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, insisted the government came to power democratically and is not backed by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), nor soldiers as claimed by the foreign media.

 

His response came after Lee Jones, an Oxford lecturer, accused Mr Abhisit of being undemocratic and coming to power with the help of "street politicians" who were rewarded with ministerial posts. Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia editor of The Times, also wrote a commentary attacking Mr Abhisit.

 

He said, however, that the media had the right to express their opinions.

 

 

Unless they do so in Thailand, at which point they'll be arrested, as they pose a security threat.

 

They haven't worked out how to control those darn farangs...yet.

 

So we can express opinions, outside Thailand obviously, but we are wrong, because he says so.....ok!

 

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Why so? If the red shirts can claim that Wacky Takky is innocent and popularly elected in fair ballots, then the current gummint can proclaim with a straight face that they are the same na?

 

Cheers,

SD -- believes 1,000x more in the latter than the former...

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