No more rift-provoking bills: Phumtham
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Pheu Thai Party Secretary General Phumtham Wechayachai announced Wednesday that if the Senate kills the amnesty bill, the Pheu Thai-led government will not seek to make any revision into the bill and resubmit it.
The Senate will convene on November 8. Phumtham said that once the Senate's opinion is out, the government is ready act accordingly. If the bill is killed, all other MPs's amnesty draft laws would be withdrawn.
"The government is willing to heed public opinions,” he said at the press conference. "Pheu Thai will not submit any laws which would create social rifts, as a good start to restore peace."
In Chanthaburi, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra stood by Phumtham's announcement. She said that through the remaining life of this government, there would be no more discussion on the amnesty if the Senate kills the bill.
The announcement was made as many other organisations are prepared to launch protests. In the evening, Mahidol University students marched from its Rajvithi campus to join others at Urupong. In protesting the bill, parts of Silpakorn University's wall show a graffiti saying the university is against the bill.
