Kokaew unfazed by bail review
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Pheu Thai MP Kokaew Pikulthong yesterday shrugged off an attempt to cancel his bail on grounds of being allegedly involved in inciting the red shirts to oppose the judicial ruling on charter change.
“I am not worrying about the bail review because I am prepared to justify my activities,” he said.
Kokaew said he expected a favourable review on his bail as he had not tried to sway the red shirts to act in contempt of the Constitution Court as alleged by Democrat MP Nipit Intarasombat.
“If I wanted to confront the judiciary, then I should not have convinced the red shirts to cancel a plan to rally at the high court,” he said.
Citing Kokaew’s remarks against judicial intervention on the charter amendment bill as evidence, Nipit filed a complaint seeking to revoke his bail pending trial for terrorism and related charges in connection with the political strife in 2010.
Reacting to the Democrat Party’s demand that the government rein in its red allies, Kokaew said the red shirts were free people and not under the control of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
He said Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva should apologise for the 2010 bloodshed in order to appease the red shirts.
When two people died due to the crowd-control operations during the Somchai Wongsawat government, Abhisit said that was unacceptable, he said, arguing Abhisit could not deny responsibility in the face of almost a hundred people killed under his watch.
Democrat legal adviser Ramet Rattanachaweng called on the government to initiate legal proceedings against the red shirts involved in disturbing the Democrat rally in Chon Buri.
The government should take action when its people are tampering with the law, Ramet said.
He also urged the Nitirat academic group to stop demanding the dismantling of the Constitution Court.
Nitirat leader Worachet Pakeerut should return to study in Germany again as the model for the high court originated in that country where he received his graduate degree in law, he said.
Should Worachet decide to become the spokesman for Pheu Thai Party, he should quit the academia and embark on a political career, he said.
Pheu Thai spokesman Prompong Nopparit said the Democrats’ demand that the government sever its ties with the red shirts was unreasonable.
The Democrats have trouble with the red shirts while the government has friendly ties with all the political colours, he said.
