Reds complain, yellows stay
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The red shirts yesterday filed a complaint with the nine-member Constitutional Court, asking six of the judges to rule on whether the three who accepted a petition against the amendment of Article 68 of the charter have committed a constitutional offence.
The group said that by accepting to rule on the petition, which may stop Parliament from amending the charter, the three judges may have violated Article 3 on the separation of powers of the government, judiciary and Parliament.
Meanwhile, Prasong Soonsiri paid a visit to the yellow shirts at Sanam Luang to show support to the Constitutional Court judges.
Prasong, former Royal Thai Air Force squadron leader and former secretary-general of the National Security Council, said the Constitutional Court is like “a terminator of political termites”. He told the yellow shirts that the current charter was legally accepted through a public referendum of 15 million supporters. The government was also elected under the current charter, so it cannot say the charter was derived from the coup-installed government.
He added that the move to legislate amnesty bills would be tantamount to pouring fuel on a fire.
