Mouthpiece Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon shifted fault for engineering the particular 2014 military coup onto Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha throughout the censure debate on Wednesday.
“I give you the coup maker. Here he or she is, ” Gen Prawit said, pointing to the prime minister sitting down close to him in parliament.
Gen Prawit, head of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), said neither he nor Interior Minister Gen Anupong Paojinda had a hand in the coup. Gen Prayut, Gen Prawit plus Gen Anupong are the “three Por” generals accused of being the particular architects of the hen house that toppled the particular Pheu Thai Party-led administration on Might 22, 2014.
Reacting to Gen Prawit’s revelation, Gen Prayut immediately raised his hands and smiled. Growing from the censure argument on Wednesday evening, he said he or she bore no grudges against Gen Prawit for singling your pet out as the single coup maker.
“I have to account for my actions since I made it [the coup] take place, ” Gen Prayut said. “But what drove me to accomplish? It was what was taking place then, ” he said, referring to the extreme political tensions which degenerated straight into an impasse that rendered the government during unable to function.
The now-defunct coup maker, the National Council with regard to Peace and Order, insisted it taking place the coup to break the impasse.
Tensions developed as mass protests by the People’s Democratic Reform Committee movement rallied against the govt for trying to force for a blanket amnesty allegedly intended to advantage former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who fled the country prior to becoming sentenced by the Great Court for assisting his former wife to clinch the discounted land deal.
On Wednesday, Gen Prawit was responding to the censure allegation from Theeratchai Panthumas, the Move Forward Party list MP. Mr Theeratchai alleged the deputy prime minister may have interfered with the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) in a bid to prevent being investigated for his possession of luxury watches which usually Gen Prawit claimed were lent in order to him by a buddy.
Upon Dec 27, 2018, the NACC ruled there were no reasons to accusations that Gen Prawit gave a false prosperity declaration by screwing up to include 22 luxury watches and rings.