Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont yesterday remained undecided as to whether his Cabinet will sanction an amnesty bill for the 111 Thai Rak Thai executives banned from the electoral process for five years.

Junta leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin in a television interview on Friday proposed the amnesty for the disbanded party's executives.

Surayud said the suggestion remained just an idea of Gen Sonthi.

On Wednesday, the Con-stitution Tribunal ruled the Thai Rak Thai Party guilty of election-law violations and the political ban was slapped on its executives, including ousted prime mi-nister Thaksin Shinawatra and his aides.

"If anything at all it's probably a question of whe-ther all 111 executives really committed wrongdoing and whether they're all guilty," Surayud said of the amnesty idea.

Based on his Friday interview, General Sonthi believes most of the 111 were not involved in election-law violation. Only General Thamarak Isarangura and Pongsak Ratta-pongpaisan were among the wrongdoers.

The premier asked how wrongdoers could be distinguished from the innocent, but added it was the "right of the National Legislative Assembly to propose such a law to the Cabinet".

"We'll study whether it's appropriate and, if we have additional recommendations, we will propose a parallel bill for the assembly to consider," he said.

Meanwhile, assembly members Sombat Thamrongthan-yawong, Wallop Tang-khananurak and Akapol Sorasuchart said yesterday they would not support an amnesty because the "tribunal ruling is final".

"I will give no support to an amnesty. And I believe no one in the assembly will propose an amnesty for its consideration," he said.

Sombat criticised the Council for National Security (CNS) suggestion as "childish".

"What does the CNS want? If it does not want to punish wrongdoers, why did it issue order No 27," he said.

The order declared after last year's coup states all executives of any party dissolved by a decision of the Constitution Court or other body with the same mandate as the court will be banned from politics for five years. The tribunal based its ban of executives on the order.

Tribunal judge Charan Hathagam said an amnesty was a matter for the government to consider.

"I don't have an opinion. I have done my job to the best of my ability. From now on I don't care who does what, but they should be responsible in their actions," he said.