Abhisit suggests House dissolution

Written by Writer on Monday, October 13th, 2008

Abhisit suggests House dissolution

Opposition Democrat party leader, Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva, suggested the Government dissolving lower House to resolve prevailing political deadlock.

Mr. Abhisit stated today (October 13) that he did not believed that two task forces established by Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Mr. Somchai Wongsawat would find no culprits adopting violence during October 7 clashes between police and People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD)’s protesters.

He said that leaders’ showing political responsibility was normal an a democratic country where government was elected, referring to Mr. Somchai’s live broadcast on all TV channels on Sunday night and his declaration to set up two committees probing October 7 clashes.

Mr. Somchai said earlier that Mr. Preecha Panitchwong, a former Supreme Administrative Court judge, would head a committee probing causes dispersing PAD’s protesters. While head of the second committee healing damaged parties from the incident was expected to make public next week.

Mr. Abhisit cast doubt that the committees’ probe would be independent, although persons responsible for the committees were acceptable by general public, claiming that the Government could never locate culprits in the past violenct incidents. “Problems do not hinge on personnels, but on the Government”, he claimed.

He suggested that probing of the incidents should hinge on the Office of the National Human Right Commission and Office of the National Counter Corruption Commission as being stipulated in the Constitution. The Government also had to cooperate with them.

Regarding Mr. Somchai’s proposal to establish the third constitutional drafting assembly to amend Constitution, the opposition leader said that he didn’t believe the move could help resolving prevailing political deadlock. He suggested the Government to dissolve the lower House of Representatives.