By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE CONSTITUTION COURT has been petitioned by a group of acting senators to consider impeaching Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and putting an end to his elected premiership as well as the newly-given ministerial status of one of his cabinet members.
The group of 40 acting senators have lodged the surprise petition with the Constitutional Court in pursuit of an end of rule by Srettha as head of the Pheu Thai-led government by way of the sought-after impeachment in relation to the contentious naming of Pichit Chuenban as a minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Those acting senators have concluded in pursuit of an immediate end to rule by Srettha, allegedly pushed to power by deposed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra, on grounds of having evidently perpetrated a “severe” breach to the Code of Political Ethics by naming Pichit as one of the Prime Minister’s Office ministers in a recent cabinet lineup.
Pichit who had earlier worked as lawyer on behalf of Thaksin over a Ratchada land grab lawsuit was caught in 2008 trying to hand two million baht in kickback cash literally contained in food bags to administrative officials of the Supreme Court, thus found guilty by court and sentenced to six months in jail. His lawyer licence was subsequently revoked by the Lawyers Council.
Nevertheless, Pichit had been allegedly practically named the Prime Minister’s Office minister by the de facto Pheu Thai boss leaving the prime minister held legally accountable for that.
The acting senators have viewed Pichit’s previous performances as “evidently prone to corruption”, thus being “severely, ethically wrongful” for Srettha to have named him a member of cabinet in the first place.
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Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, right, and Minister Attached to the Prime Minister’s Office Pichit Chuenban, left. Photo: Amarin TV
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