BANGKOK -- Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said Sunday he would not intervene in the upcoming corruption cases against ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej greets upon his arrival at Phnom Penh international airport March 3, 2008. Samak said Sunday he would not intervene in the upcoming corruption cases against ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. [Agencies] |
Samak said his political opponents were not necessary to warn him and his government not to interfere in legal proceedings against Thaksin.
"My government would not dare to intervene into the judicial process and will never do so," Samak was quoted by local news network The Nation as saying.
"He will appear in court on March 12 on his own and fight the cases himself, the government will not be involved in his charges, " Samak said in his weekly nationwide television and radio talk.
During the past days, some political opponents of the government, especially the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), a civil anti-Thaksin group which launched dozens of demonstrations against Thaksin before the military coup in 2006, had threatened several times that the group would launch mass protests against the government led by Samak since "it is purging senior government officials and interfering in judicial procedure in the case of Thaksin."
