By Xinhua,
Bangkok : Thailand’s opposition Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said Wednesday his party plans to seek impeachment proceedings against Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and Chusak Sirinil, Minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Abhisit said the chairman of the opposition whips and legal experts from the Democrat Party had been assigned to study the details on filing impeachment proceedings against the duo.
The plan came just one day after he had said his party would seek impeachment of Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama after the Constitution Court ruled that the minister violated the constitution by signing a joint statement with Cambodia on Preah Vihear temple without prior parliamentary endorsement.
Thai law only allows impeachment proceedings to be lodged against individual ministers, not the entire cabinet. And the initial documents must explain clearly how an impeached minister has violated the constitution, explained Abhisit.
Chusak has been placed on the list because he oversees law for the five-month-old government, said Abhisit.