Junta: No Plan to Remove Embattled Bangkok Governor

By Teeranai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter

Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra at Wednesday's news conference.

BANGKOK — Junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha will not remove Bangkok Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra from office any time soon, his deputy said Friday.

The affirmation meant that two-term provincial governor’s position is likely to survive calls from his fellow Democrats for the military government to use its absolute power to boot him from office after an investigation found Sukhumbhand directly oversaw a graft-heavy city vanity project which ran in the millions.

“It doesn’t mean that any accused person has to be suspended by Article 44,” said deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, referring to the charter provision that granted Prayuth an unlimited ability to enact any measures, including removing bureaucrats at will.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1462537053

-- Khaosod English 2016-05-07

of course not, he's one of them!

“Anyone who wrote this way has to be careful with the law,” Sukhumbhand said. “From now on, I won’t spare anyone. You see these facts. If anyone says I’m guilty, I will sue them.”

Best not to comment too much on this, only to say how very "Thai" his response is.

With his connections. Forget it.!

On Thursday the Junta implemented order 22/2016 to replace locally elected officials with centrally appointed bureaucrats (perhaps with some "cause"?), so just a matter of time for Sukhumbhand?

Junta to replace elected local councillors with appointed bureaucrats

The latest order by the junta replaces elected local councillors with appointed government officials and gives the junta head the power to directly dismiss ‘corrupt’ councillors. This will allow the junta to take total control of local administrative organizations across the country within four years.

On Thursday, 5 May 2016, the Royal Gazette published NCPO Order No. 22/2016 on the selection of local administration councillor. The Order states that when any local council is dissolved, the Ministry of Interior shall have the authority to appoint government officials to local councils.

The Order was issued under the authority of Article 44 of the Interim Charter and will be applied to all local administrative organizations, except in Bangkok.

The Order also appoints bureaucrats within the Ministry of Interior to the committees to select local councillors. Committee members are drawn from various Ministry of Interior departments, such as the Department of Provincial Administration, the Department of Lands and the Community Development Department.

The cancer spreads.

jabba the hutt

No reconciliation and no change in attitude. Thailand is going nowhere but down hill.

Quite telling that people from his own party are helping to crack the case and hating the corruption.

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I hope the anti corruption group wins and this guy goes to jail and gets a fine. Corruption is a cancer.

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Lets hope this guy gets punished and is made to pay damages too.

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Seems a little lacking in consistency.

From reports it seems 100's of officials throughout the country have been removed on suspicion of corruption, yet here we have a case where at least some corruption bodies believe there may be an issue, but in this instance its decided not to remove the officials.

jabba the hutt

Not a very pleasant face...

No plan to enforce the law seems to be the only sure thing here.

On Thursday the Junta implemented order 22/2016 to replace locally elected officials with centrally appointed bureaucrats (perhaps with some "cause"?), so just a matter of time for Sukhumbhand?

Junta to replace elected local councillors with appointed bureaucrats

The latest order by the junta replaces elected local councillors with appointed government officials and gives the junta head the power to directly dismiss corrupt councillors. This will allow the junta to take total control of local administrative organizations across the country within four years.

On Thursday, 5 May 2016, the Royal Gazette published NCPO Order No. 22/2016 on the selection of local administration councillor. The Order states that when any local council is dissolved, the Ministry of Interior shall have the authority to appoint government officials to local councils.

The Order was issued under the authority of Article 44 of the Interim Charter and will be applied to all local administrative organizations, except in Bangkok.

The Order also appoints bureaucrats within the Ministry of Interior to the committees to select local councillors. Committee members are drawn from various Ministry of Interior departments, such as the Department of Provincial Administration, the Department of Lands and the Community Development Department.

PATTAYA CITY MAYOR AND COUNCIL DISSOLVED?

Heard on local grapevine...

Effective May 17th

?????

He's mates with Suthep. Says it all.

Any other respectable country, there would be a full public enquiry. If found guilty, then would be immediately dismissed in shame, facing prosecution, and public shaming.

But this is Thailand, and it seems corruption is very much at the forefront of Thai politics, where the rule of law is completely ignored. No wonder the country is going down the plug hole !