Senate to deliberate amnesty bill Friday: Abhisit
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The blanket amnesty bill would be deliberated in the first reading by the Senate on Friday, opposition Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said Wednesday.
He said he had heard that the Senate would pick up the bill deliberation on Friday instead of waiting for Monday as the Senate speaker has earlier announced.
He said that people could not trust both the Senate and the government although Senate Speaker Nikom Waiyaratpanit vowed to reject the blanket amnesty bill after the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has signalled to the Senate to do that.
The rejection was just a government’s ploy to prevent protests from escalating because the government could reaffirm the draft’s passage after six months, Abhisit said.
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