Abhisit Challenges Pm Yingluck To Quit

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Democrat party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva today (Wednesday) challenged caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to quit the office so that the Constitutional Court will not have to rule whether she should be disqualified for abuse of authority over the illegal removal of Mr Thawil Pliensri as secretary-general of the National Security Council two years ago.

 

In an interview with the Blue Sky Channel, Abhisit pointed out that although Ms Yingluck was no longer the prime minister since the dissolution of the House some time ago, she has still been performing the duty of the caretaker prime minister.

 

The Democrat leader said that the prime minister claimed that her case was similar to the case of an MP who lost his/her parliamentary membership and the court would not have to accept a case challenging his/her status. But her case, he insisted, is completely different from that of an MP who lost his status.

 

Abhisit noted that the prime minister was trying to create a misunderstanding that she was being unfairly treated by the National Anti-Corruption Commission over the rice pledging scheme because she oversaw policy matters and was not concerned with policy implementation.

 

The prime minister, said Abhisit, should tell the truth to the public and should not cause a public misunderstanding that she was being persecuted or unfairly treated.

 

Writing in her Facebook page today, Ms Yingluck insisted that the Constitutional Court had no right to revive Mr Thawil’s transfer case against her because the case was already over after the Supreme Administrative Court had decided to have him reinstated.

 

She made an observation that the Constitutional Court had set a new precedent because it was the first time the court accepted for consideration a legal case regarding personnel management, despite the fact that the case had actually been finalized by the Supreme Administrative Court.

 

 

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