Pheu Thai to challenge emergency in court

By The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The Pheu Thai Party has appointed a legal team to petition for judicial intervention to repeal the State of Emergency declared on Wednesday by the government, its MP Surapong Towijakchaikul said yesterday.

"Pheu Thai cannot stand on the sidelines anymore," he said.

Surapong said his party's legal team was expected to submit the petition to the Central Administrative Court, seeking an injunction against the emergency rule.

The legal team will also seek a Constitution-Court ruling on the legality of the state of emergency, he said.

In a related development, the legal team filed a complaint with the Crime Suppression Division demanding a police investigation into the deployment of more than 2,000 troops at the ThaiCom uplink station.

The complaint named Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban and a number of military leaders as suspects for abusing emergency rule to seize control of the satellite station without a court-approved warrant.

In a related development, Interior Minister Chaovarat Chanweerakul said yesterday that the red shirts were rallying in 17 provinces in the North and the Northeast to support their fellow protesters in Bangkok.

"Although protests are sprouting up, there are no reports of any danger," he said, reaffirming the authorities could control the situation.

Provincial governors are under instruction to enforce the highest-level security to protect government installations in their respective provinces, he said.

Security forces in the provinces have been tasked with guarding provincial halls but not to clash with protesters if they stage a raid, he said, explaining that security cameras would record each incident for the prosecution.

He also said under emergency rule, provincial authorities had to stop the red shirts from travelling to reinforce the protests in the capital.

-- The Nation 2010-04-09

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Why not let its MP led a raid to the government house like they did with the EC?

I love this kind of ridiculous double-talk....

Provincial governors are under instruction to enforce the highest-level security to protect government installations in their respective provinces, he said.

VS....

Security forces in the provinces have been tasked with guarding provincial halls but not to clash with protesters if they stage a raid, he said, explaining that security cameras would record each incident for the prosecution.

So how exactly are the security forces supposed to protect and enforce.... "Oh.... please please.... don't raid our installation....."

MP Surapong Towijakchaikul said yesterday.

"Pheu Thai cannot stand on the sidelines anymore," he said.

This is still laugh of the day. Considering the number of PTP members on red stages,

and running around saying all sorts of spurious anti-government crap, to say they

are now not standing on the sidelines is ludicrous.

Just another PTP MP showing why he is not competent to run a government.