Yingluck refuses to face inquiry in NLA
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Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra refused to turn up in the National Legislative Assembly Friday to face inquiry by an NLA panel as part of the impeachment process.
Instead, she sent her team of nine lawyers and former Cabinet members to answer questions on behalf of her.
The inquiry committee prepared 14 questions to ask the National Anti-Corruption Commission to clarify and prepared 35 questions for the former prime minister to explain. Earlier, the inquiry panel planned to ask her 60 questions.
At the start of the session, some NLA members tried to protest, saying Yingluck should come to answer the questions by herself.
But NLA President Pornpetch Wichitcholchai said there were no regulations to force Yingluck to answer the questions by herself.
After several NLA members demanded to know the reasons why Yingluck did not turn up to answer the questions, Norawit Laleng, Yingluck’s lawyer, said the meeting regulations allowed Yingluck to assign others to answer questions for her.
