Prayut makes tacit admission of failure to utter proper oath before taking office

By The Nation

 

Prayut Chan-o-cha

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday apologised to his Cabinet members for the ongoing controversy regarding his taking of the oath before taking office in what was seen as a tacit admission that he had failed to complete the wording of the oath as required by the constitution.

 

The controversy has been raging since before just the government policy debate, when Future Forward secretary general Piyabutr Saengkanokkul said Prayut was not constitutionally qualified to work as the prime minister because he had failed to properly take the oath of office. 

 

Piyabutr alleged that Prayut ended his oath statement before saying he would protect the constitution.

 

Prayut earlier argued that he had spoken the oath correctly and and the YouTube clip presented by Piyabutr might be edited. 

 

But when Prayut held a meeting of top executives of government agencies at the Grand Diamond Ballroom of Impact, Muang Thong Thani, he issued an apology. 

 

“I would like to apologise to ministers. I’ve done my part to the best of my ability. Anyway, the country must move forward and this government must move forward too,” Prayut said while addressing the top permanent officials.

 

He said he would take all the blame for the controversy and he had only one concern – how to ensure the government could go on working.

“I take all the blame myself,” Prayut said.

 

“We must study how the charter has been written. No matter what, the government exists.”

 

He said he would not give any further interviews on this issue.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30374471

 

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4 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said he would take all the blame for the controversy and he had only one concern – how to ensure the government could go on working.

 

Stepping down would be a brilliant start.

Matters little what this guy and his cronies say or do not say on oath as they are habitual hypocrites, they also have support for their actions according to outside sources.

And his fat friend admitting Thailand has the worst death on the road records,what''s going on with this honesty, section 44 of no use now?

Just watch old Teflon Prayut slide effortlessly away with this 'minor' mistake. 

 

And at the same time FFP are being accused in the constitutional court  of being part of the illuminati based on their logo (a triangle) looking like the illuminati logo... Yep a triangle. 

 

Now imagine the unholy bun fight that would have ensued if FFP has omitted the lst sentence like Prayut.

 

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

“I take all the blame myself,” Prayut said.

 

He has enough blames to put him away for life if the courts were impartial. 

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

We must study how the charter has been written

No much hope of him successfully navigating the forthcoming trials and tribulations that Thailand must sail thru' if he can't even read out an oath that is part of a con' that was cooked up for their own delectation .. 

9 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

No much hope of him successfully navigating the forthcoming trials and tribulations that Thailand must sail thru' if he can't even read out an oath that is part of a con' that was cooked up for their own delectation .. 

He'll more and more be forced to expose the continuing dictatorship for what it really is, instead of this dressed-up pig called 'return to democracy'.

21 minutes ago, webfact said:

“We must study how the charter has been written. No matter what, the government exists.”

It was written by a bunch of usurping clowns whist holding a nation at gun point.Does that ring any bells?No matter what the government does NOT exist as the oath he took was not complete.

58 minutes ago, webfact said:

“I would like to apologise to ministers. I’ve done my part to the best of my ability. Anyway, the country must move forward and this government must move forward too,”

Sounds suspiciously like he has no choice here. No mention of re-taking the oath with the entire body of required text.

 

If, for some reason, they are not permitted to utter that final sentence it's probably time to become quite concerned about the future direction the country may take.

53 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

No much hope of him successfully navigating the forthcoming trials and tribulations that Thailand must sail thru' if he can't even read out an oath that is part of a con' that was cooked up for their own delectation .. 

Ah give him a break, they only had a few hours to cook it up, at least they got the "army shall rule from here to enternity" part right.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

I’ve done my part to the best of my ability.

Yes, I know. You did the best you could within your limitations.

Now come to the blackboard and write 100 times "I will protect the Constitution I wrote".

Then you can continue damaging the country you love.

Maybe Prayut and his ministers, who also apparently omitted the same section of their oath, were told it was not necessary.

112 or just the minimum malfeasance “out of office” verdict by the constitution court. Others were ousted for a less serious charges. 

Case closed. 

5 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:

Matters little what this guy and his cronies say or do not say on oath as they are habitual hypocrites, they also have support for their actions according to outside sources.

 

Well it matters to them.

 

That is why he avoided uttering parts of the oath that would constrain him from taking unilateral, unconstitutional, illegal action against the "ordinary" people of Thailand.

 

So that in the future, after doing so, he could defend/justify himself by claiming that he broke no oath.

 

The same sort of mindset that enabled post WW2 Thailand to claim that its de-facto alliance with the Japanese, declaration of war against the Allies and complicity in war crimes "didn't really happen".

 

You see they do think ahead.

 

But not in a "nice" way.

 

 

 

 

To save future challenges he is needed to retake the oath me thinks or this could come back and cause issues on a regular/daily basis.

He's so ready for retirement. But when will he finally come to realize that?