Indictment may end Yingluck’s comeback hopes
Print Edition
THAILAND’S anti-graft agency indicted former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for negligence yesterday, a ruling that came a day after a court threw her out of office and could kill off any hopes she has of staging an electoral comeback.
Thousands of her loyalists were converging on the capital as the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s announced its decision to press ahead with charges related to a financially ruinous state rice-buying scheme.
The blows delivered on successive days by the commission and Thailand’s Constitutional Court are the latest twists in a struggle for power between Thailand’s royalist establishment and Yingluck’s brother, ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
“The committee has investigated and there is enough evidence to make a case ... We will now forward it to the Senate,” the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) president, Panthep Klanarongran, told reporters.
If found guilty by the Senate, Yingluck could be banned from politics for five years. Several members of the family and about 150 of Thaksin’s other political allies have been banned for five-year terms since 2007.
Yingluck’s removal from office by the Constitutional Court on Wednesday for abuse of power followed months of sometimes deadly protests in Bangkok aimed at toppling her government and ending elder brother Thaksin’s influence.
Thaksin, a billionaire tycoon who has the unswerving loyalty of legions of Thailand’s poor, lives in exile to avoid a 2008 jail sentence for abuse of power.
The Constitutional Court ruled that Yingluck and nine cabinet ministers had abused power in 2011 over the transfer of a security agency chief.
But the court left the Shinawatras’ ruling party in charge of a caretaker administration intent on organizing a July 20 general election, which Yingluck’s party would likely win.
Pro- and anti-government activists are planning Bangkok rallies in the coming days. Twenty-five people have been killed in protests since November.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
