Clarification Sought Directly From Kittiratt: White Lies

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WHITE LIES

Clarification sought directly from Kittiratt

Khanittha Thepphajorn

The Nation

Kittirat

BANGKOK: -- A motion filed in the House against Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong in relation to his "white lies" controversy has been postponed to next week because the minister is attending to official duties overseas.

Though Kittiratt had given his deputy Tanusak Lekuthai the authority to answer the motion filed by opposition Democrat MP Kiat Sittheeamorn in the House yesterday, the MP insisted that the answers be provided by Kittiratt himself or the prime minister.

"Other people cannot clarify things for him because he was the one who admitted to telling white lies," Kiat said.

Last Thursday, Kittiratt admitted that sometimes he had to tell "white lies" in order to boost confidence in the country's economy.

Tanusak told the House that Kittiratt could not attend the meeting because he was participating in the three-day Apec Finance Ministers' forum in Moscow, which wraps up today.

"The schedule was planned in advance. He has no intention of avoiding any questions," Tanusak said.

Separately, Democrat MP Chanin Rungsang, as chairman of the House committee on economic development, said his panel was thinking about issuing an "order" for officials to clarify the government's rice-pledging scheme and distribution of the rice stockpile after officials refused to show up when summoned previously.

"The committee will issue an invitation letter for them to present their clarifications on September 5. If they refuse to come for a third time, the committee will follow the process as per the House and Senates' summons," he said.

The committee needs a majority vote to issue a warning letter and then needs votes from more than half of its members to issue a summons. The letter has a legal mandate in that the receivers will be seen as breaking the law if they refuse to attend, Chanin said.

Only six of the 15 members of the committee come from the opposition.

-- The Nation 2012-08-31

[GentlemanJim]

A motion filed in the House against Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong in relation to his "white lies" controversy has been postponed to next week because the minister is attending to official duties overseas.

Or is he really attending the meeting?

The letter has a legal mandate in that the receivers will be seen as breaking the law if they refuse to attend, Chanin said.

And when they break the law nothing can happen because the MP's are immune from prosecutions, so these guys will continue to not answer questions concerning the distribution of rice pledging money. Instead of announcing that the Government are going to camp down on intellectual rights abuses today, perhaps they should tend to the intellectual rights of their citizens and get rid of MP's enjoying the policies on criminal immunity. Until then corruption is effectively legal for these people.

[marshbags]

The last line after the last 2 preceeding paragraphs highlighted already put the odds of a result on this in favour of Kittaratt with a potential 9-6 majority against the opposition.

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" The committee will issue an invitation letter for them to present their clarifications on September 5. If they refuse to come for a third time, the committee will follow the process as per the House and Senates' summons," he said.

The committee needs a majority vote to issue a warning letter and then needs votes from more than half of its members to issue a summons. The letter has a legal mandate in that the receivers will be seen as breaking the law if they refuse to attend, Chanin said."

" Only six of the 15 members of the committee come from the opposition. "

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When are the government going to start answering personally instead of using substitutes.

Oviously we all know these substitutes are better equipted and more devious ect. ect. when it comes to giving direct answers or he covers his ar*e to prevent dropping further b*ll*cks by using someone else to answer for him.

Kittaratt while being devious ect. would / will finish up in more trouble going on his B*ll*ck dropping for the white LIE he openly admitted to.

marshbags

Edited August 31, 2012 by marshbags

[Pops]

The man only admitted to, sometimes having to tell "white lies", in order to avoid panic reactions which could seriously harm the market.

All finance departments of all governments around the world, do exactly this when faced with situations in which a serious panic reaction by the people, might cause enormous harm to the market.

Get a freaking life and open your eyes, at least the man is open enough to admit it.

[Thai at Heart]

It is more than just giving confidence to the market, this is extremely political also.

Imagine if within a moment of them coming into the market, they had started talking about export growth dropping as much as they now claim, even though it was obvious that it would. I can imagine the fall out, despite the fact that with a massive flood and the problems in the global market that a drop was inevitable.

[tragickingdom]

It is completely weird that a man who potentially stood to make large sums of money by falsifying figures is not impeached. It shows the insincerity of the ruling elite. What this gentleman did is ten times worse than what Thaksin pulled off during twenty years of playing politics. Nobody in the market will believe any figure anymore that comes out of the economic ministry. Maybe he could apply for a job in Greece.

[Arkady]

White lies and dam_n lies!

Sometimes Kittirat is just too open. Politicians are supposed to lie for a living and then lie about lying. His big boss is such a master of this that he that reality and fiction are totally blurred in his own mind. He must consider Kittirat as a weakling for actually admitting that he lied. Time for a reshuffle. Perhaps Kittirat should go back to managing the Thai football team or writing really bad equities research.

[clinique]

Yes he has questions to answer and may end up in the manure for his statement which would have been better left unsaid.

BUT if there is anyone out there who thinks that government figures, statisitcs and announcements from all around the world are not 'fudged' or exagerated to indicate better than actual circumstances, then that would be very naive.

[Robby nz]

The bigest problem is that now no one can believe anything he says for they will not know if it is another lie or not.

Or will he qualify all his statements on the economy by saying 'this one is true but the next will be a lie'

[bigbamboo]

The man only admitted to, sometimes having to tell "white lies", in order to avoid panic reactions which could seriously harm the market.

All finance departments of all governments around the world, do exactly this when faced with situations in which a serious panic reaction by the people, might cause enormous harm to the market.

Get a freaking life and open your eyes, at least the man is open enough to admit it.

Bullshit.

[Ricardo]

The man only admitted to, sometimes having to tell "white lies", in order to avoid panic reactions which could seriously harm the market.

All finance departments of all governments around the world, do exactly this when faced with situations in which a serious panic reaction by the people, might cause enormous harm to the market.

Get a freaking life and open your eyes, at least the man is open enough to admit it.

"open enough to admit it"

Isn't the right word "naive", rather than "open" ?

[MILT]

The man only admitted to, sometimes having to tell "white lies", in order to avoid panic reactions which could seriously harm the market.

All finance departments of all governments around the world, do exactly this when faced with situations in which a serious panic reaction by the people, might cause enormous harm to the market.

Get a freaking life and open your eyes, at least the man is open enough to admit it.

Yep and when they do slightly deceive the markets to build false confidence they create more uncertainty and spoil real confidence.

Kudos for (hello) Kittiratt admitting his poor decision to tell lies.

[Thai at Heart]

The man only admitted to, sometimes having to tell "white lies", in order to avoid panic reactions which could seriously harm the market.

All finance departments of all governments around the world, do exactly this when faced with situations in which a serious panic reaction by the people, might cause enormous harm to the market.

Get a freaking life and open your eyes, at least the man is open enough to admit it.

Yep and when they do slightly deceive the markets to build false confidence they create more uncertainty and spoil real confidence.

Kudos for (hello) Kittiratt admitting his poor decision to tell lies.

NOW. every statement needs a heap of salt. He has removed any chance that he can ever inspire confidence again.

If he gives honest positive forecasts no one will believe him., and if it is a negative forecast everyone will believe it is underestimated. He cannot continue to hold the position because he will be unable to inspire confidence true or false again.