Sonthi threatens to sue PPP

"I have just received a confirmation that the PPP's allegation is not true and the party might face a lawsuit as a consequence," he said.

Sonthi said the PPP was free to campaign so long as it refrained from committing offences such as vote buying. Authorities will not interfere with any campaigning activities, he added.   

Meanwhile, Army chief General Anupong Paochinda dismissed the allegation that soldiers had threatened to shoot a campaign worker of the People Power Party (PPP) in Amnat Charoen on Friday.

"The Second Army Region has confirmed there was no soldiers nor armed personnel wielding any assualt rifles at the alleged scende as claimed by the PPP," he said.

Anupong said the military would not interfere with the campaigning and that soldiers in the Northeast were deployed to tackle securityrelated problems such as drug trafficking and border smuggling.

PPP candidate Chaisri Kila filed a complaint that his aide Sombat Wanthong was threatened with a rifle pointing at his head during a search at a military checkpoint set up on the route back home from a late night campaign meeting.

Provincial police found no evidence to back up the allegation about the checkpoint.

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