'Unfair' to blame Yingluck for error
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra should not be attacked for the royal blunder on her Facebook page because she was not to blame and did not try to play it down, the government spokeswoman said yesterday.
“Critics have been unfair to Yingluck by distorting her remarks and actions to find fault with her,” Thitima Chaisang said.
Yingluck was not shirking her responsibility as alleged because she fired her Facebook team for posting the wrong picture with her message expressing best wishes for His Majesty the King on his birthday, Thitima said.
On Saturday, Yingluck’s Facebook page briefly showed a different person before it was corrected.
Yingluck immediately instructed PM’s secretary-general Bandhoon Supakavanich to compose a formal apology and seek His Majesty’s pardon via the Office of His Majesty’s Principal Private Secretary, Thitima added.
