Protesting prosecutors say charter law could interfere in decision making
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MORE THAN 500 public prosecutors have teamed up to oppose a charter draft provision, citing the legislation provided loopholes that might lead to political interference in their indictment decisions.
Chaninya Chaisuwan, deputy director-general of the Department of Administrative Litigation, announced that the prosecutors had joined forces to oppose Article 228 in the charter draft.
After the conference, she submitted an open letter with the signatures of 500 prosecutors to Borwornsak Uwanno, chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee, Wissanu Krea-ngam, deputy prime minister, Thienchay Kiranandana, chairman of the National Reform Council, and Pornpetch Wichitcholchai, president of the National Legislative Assembly.
Chaninya said the prosecutors objected to the move to allow outsiders – who were not prosecutors, or had never served as a prosecutor, and were not political officer holders or served as attorney general – to become chairman of the Public Prosecutor Commission (PPC).
