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Published on March 6, 2008

The June 24 Democracy group led by Somyos Prueksakasemsuk and the Saturday People against Dictatorship led by Wipoothalaeng Pattanapumthai submitted a letter to scrap the Constitution to the second Deputy House Speaker, Apiwan Wiriyachai.

The letter said the Constitution and laws legislated by the National Legislative Assembly and the Council for National Security did not have legitimacy. Enforcing the laws meant the country accepted coups and military dictatorships.

They called on Parliament to revoke all the laws and set up a House special committee to check the damage incurred from the September coup, with members drawn from the public and academic and civic groups.

Meanwhile, the People's Alliance for Democracy said Thailand was on the verge of plunging into turmoil once again because the government is bent on fixing the judicial system in order to help former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra elude the law.

The PAD plans to organise a convention of opponents of the Thaksin regime to assess the situation and map out countermeasures against the Samak Sundaravej administration, which it sees as a puppet.

It claimed the government was trying to rescue Thaksin from his legal wrangling by either amending the Constitution and relevant laws to wipe out the charges or staging a "self-inflicted coup" to cancel all graft proceedings involving Thaksin.

The Nation