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Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said Thursday that Deputy Prime Minister Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin would be removed as chairman of the national committee to fight vote buying if the Election Commission rules that the Council for National Security is biased against the People Power Party.

Surayud said he was awaiting a ruling of the EC before making a decision on Sonthi's chairmanship of the anti-vote buying committee.

The PPP has filed complaint with the EC that the CNS, when headed by then army chief Sonthi, had issued a confidential document, instructing the Army to pick on the PPP to try to prevent it from winning the upcoming election.

Surayud said the government would handle the issue with impartiality.

The Nation