Red shirts won't rally this week
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The red shirts will not rally tomorrow or on Friday when the Constitution Court conducts hearings about the charter amendment bill, Deputy Agriculture Minister Natthawut Saikua said yesterday.
“The red shirts will not pressure the court,” he said.
Natthawut said he believed the majority of people backed the government in pushing for changes in the charter.
Relevant parties would outline factual evidence to defend the rewrite of the charter, he said, to say that the proposed amendments were within legal limits and in accordance with the government’s pledge in Parliament, he said.
If opponents tried to exercise extra-constitutional power in bid to oust the government, then the ongoing political crisis would be unsolvable, he said.
If the high court handed down an unfavourable verdict, the government would fight for it to be overturned, he said, adding that he believed such a verdict would backfire and drive even stronger support for the government.
He said he was disappointed at seeing the “same opponents”, such as Kaewsun Atibodhi and Surapon Nitikraipot, on the list of witnesses to testify against charter change.
