Democrats vow to detail misdeeds
Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva explains to people from the Northeast who work in Bangkok why the party is boycotting the April 2 election at a meeting at the party’s headquarters yesterday. Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin also attended the mee
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Democrat Party executives will give details to a big rally at Sanam Luang on Friday about irregularities in the Thaksin administration over the past five years, the party spokesman said yesterday.
The executives yesterday brought together 200 people from the Northeast who have been working in Bangkok, treating them to lunch and explaining to them why the party had boycotted the April 2 election. Former Ubon Ratchathani MP Withoon Nambutr said he had asked the people, about 10 middle-class workers from each of the northeastern provinces, to support party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as prime minister. People from the Northeast should also file their problems with Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin so he could help them, he said. Ong-art Klampaiboon said the party would also tell people how much damage the government had caused and would cause to the country. Moreover, the party would declare its stance in the current political crisis, and make suggestions about how to improve the country, he said. Ongart said the prime minister had been criticised as lacking morality in four ways: his lack of honesty and sincerity; his abuse of power; his intolerance; and his refusal to sacrifice personal gains. He said Thaksin had applied the "divide and rule" approach to governing the country by setting up groups of supporters to oppose government protesters. The government had tried very hard to justify the April 2 election although it wasn't totally legitimate, he said. Moreover, the attacks on the leaders of the People's Alliance for Democracy were a sign of more violence that the government must prevent, otherwise it could worsen the problem, he said.
Bancha Khaengkhan The Nation
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