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Anupong said he gave the advice because the public had put high hopes on the military to improve the situation facing the country and he also would like the country to move on.

He denied reports that he had negotiated with politicians so he could get the Defence Ministry portfolio, saying he had never aspired to the position.

Former Defence Ministry secretary-general General Winai Pattiyakul also denied speculation he would be given the defence ministry portfolio, saying he had never talked to the Democrats and no one had asked him to assume the post.

A source, who is a former leader of the Council for National Security, denied an accusation made by former Thai Rak Thai Party leader Chaturon Chaisang that military personnel attached to the CNS had been trying to uproot the disbanded People Power Party under a four-step plan.

 "The accusation is groundless. The CNS has ended its role and duties. Actually we have been very kind to them but they do not know what to do so they make up the CNS when it does not exist any more,'' he said.

He said he had not talked to former chairman of the CNS General Sonthi Boonyaratglin after the CNS was dissolved.

Air Force deputy spokesman Group Captain Monthol Satchukorn defended Air Force chief ACM Ithiporn Supawong over a press interview statement that has been criticised as political inference.

He said Ithiporn had no intention to interfere with politics and had made the comment as an ordinary citizen. He also insisted that he had no discrimination against any particular political party.

Meanwhile, a close aide to former Air Force chief ACM Chalit Pukpasuk rejected an accusation levelled by a Pheu Thai Party party-list MP against Chalit that he had used a fund to purchase Air Force planes to build three houses as baseless, saying Chalit's family spent their own money to build the houses on the family's land.