Yingluck echoes Thaksin's scorn of charter draft
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Just two days after her brother voiced opposition to the charter, ex-pm Yingluck Shinawatra Monday offered her concerns about the new charter draft.
In particular, her criticism targeted the draft’s planned design for the National Strategic Reform and Reconciliation Committee (NSRRC). She claimed it would have more power than the government and Parliament.
Posting on her personal Facebook page, Yingluck said having such a commission to make a decision when the country encountered a crisis was unnecessary.
“A democratic charter links the people and allows the majority of people to make a decision. Having a selected group of people (to make a decision for the people) is not truly democracy,’’ she said.
Speaking in Finland and seen on a YouTube clip released on Friday, ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra called on democracy advocates to oppose the charter draft, saying if passed it would be the country’s worst.
He said that most Thais did not accept the charter draft and democracy enthusiasts should reject all undemocratic principles in it.
