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Tue, 04/22/2014 - 12:38
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Caretaker PM to remain in Thailand

BANGKOK, April 22 (TNA) - Caretaker Prime Minister and Defence Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will not flee Thailand to escape from legal prosecution as some have speculated. Suranand Vejjajiva, Secretary-General to the Prime Minister, made the assurance on Tuesday, insisting if Bangkok's Constitutional Court does not extend its deadline for the caretaker prime minister to send an explanation on her unlawful transfer of Thawil Pliensri from the position of the National Security Council (NSC) secretary-general, the caretaker prime minister will be ready to send it. Suranand denied a rumor that the caretaker prime minister planned to leave Thailand to escape from prosecution. Meanwhile, Police Captain Chalerm Yubamrung, Director of the caretaker government-run Center for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO), gave a comment that the Constitutional Court had ruled against only the individual status of late prime minister Samak Sundaravej for being a TV show host and spared the status of his Cabinet and if the court issued an unconstitutional ruling in Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck's case, it would be criticized. Earlier, some senators asked the Constitutional Court to rule on the caretaker prime minister's status due to her past transfer of Thawil, after the Administrative Court and the Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the transfer was unlawful. (TNA)

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