Thailand's Pheu Thai party threatens to file lawsuit against protest leader

BANGKOK, April 6 (TNA) - Pheu Thai Party of Thailand's caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday threatened to file a lawsuit against Suthep Thaugsuban, leader of anti-government movement, over his remarks on a plan to establish sovereignty and appoint a new cabinet. Pheu Thai Party spokesman Prompong Nopparit told a press conference that Mr. Suthep’s remarks, made late Saturday during an address to anti-government protesters of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee, showed that he was violating the law as well as infringing the power of His Majesty the king over a plan to submit a list of cabinet ministers for the Royal approval after toppling the current caretaker government. Charging that Mr. Suthep has no democratic instinct and does not care the people’s feeling, Mr. Prompong said he and the party’s legal experts would gather evidence and submit a complaint to police later this week. Also, the party will request the Constitutional Court to interpret whether Mr. Suthep’s remarks were considered as abolishing democratic system in Thailand, said Mr. Prompong. He went on attacking Mr. Suthep, a former deputy prime minister, of having a meeting with an important person at a Bangkok hotel on Sukhumvit Road recently and agreed on “appointing one of the three persons in their minds a neutral prime minister”. Mr. Prompong also predicted that political situation in the country would become deteriorated after the Songkran festival, Thailand’s traditional New Year which starts from April 13 – 15, when the Constitutional Court and other independent agencies ruled that Miss Yingluck was guilty and the caretaker government had to be removed. In another development, the major opposition Democrat Party on Sunday celebrated 68th birthday of establishing the political party at the party’s headquarters. Leader of the party Abhisit Vejjajiva as well as party members joined in the Buddhist, Islamic and Brahmin religious rites. Representatives of other political parties were also present to offer congratulations. (TNA)