Army had no choice: Kanin
An architect of the People's Constitution of 1997 yesterday empathised with the Administrative Reform Council (ARC) that seized power from the caretaker government, saying former premier Thaksin Shinawatra gave the military no choice.
"Thaksin left the Army with no other choice except to stage a coup," Kanin Boonsuwan said. He believed the former prime minister was unwanted in the country, but nobody could take him out, therefore the coup was the only solution in these circumstances. Kanin proposed the ARC form a panel gathering 200 well-respected figures to draft a new constitution by using the 1997 Constitution as a guideline. When the election takes place, paving the way to reconstitute Parliament, the reform council should be dissolved instantly, he added. Seri Suwanpanont, a Constitution drafter and former senator, also urged the ARC to frame a new constitution as soon as possible by using the 1997 Constitution as a model. The suspended constitution was good in principle, he said. But in reality, many independent agencies were politically interfered with to favour a small group of people, he said. The Nation
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