Chalerm files complaints against MPs, dailies over 'drunk' allegation
Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung announced Tuesday that he had filed police complaints against three Democrat MPs and another two daily newspapers for saying that he looked drunk during the parliamentary debate last Friday.
Chalerm said his lawyer had filed a complaint on Monday, accusing MPs Rangsima Rodrasami, Theptai Senapong and Boonyod Sukthinthai, as well as Krungthep Turakij and Kom Chad Luek newspapers of libel.
This was in addition to an earlier police complaint Chalerm filed on Sunday against Thai Post, Thai Rath, Siam Rath and Naew Na accusing them of libel for reporting him as being drunk in Parliament.
Chalerm said he had held off on filing a complaint against Rangsima because parliamentary immunity protected her when she first accused him of being drunk during the debate on Friday. However, he decided to take legal action after she repeated her allegations outside Parliament.
The Nation
