By Thai Newsroom Reporters
OVER 100 SCHOLARS plan to submit a joint appeal to His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn tomorrow (June 27) asking for the monarch’s rare remark on a significant phenomenon in which Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, has evidently perpetrated what they call an act of treason to Thailand, thus supposedly warranting an impending end to her rule.
In addition to the 100-plus academics from universities and colleges nationwide, a number of retired military and police officers and civilian government officials have joined in the latest move of those scholars and undersigned the rare appeal to the monarch to the extent that the woman prime minister be terminally deprived of the elected premiership sooner than later due to her disreputable, erroneous conduct in regard to Thai-Cambodian border conflict deemed considerably detrimental to Thailand’s interests and territorial integrity on land along the shared border and in the sea in the Gulf of Thailand.
That Paetongtarn had spontaneously offered to do whatever Cambodian leader Hun Sen may have demanded for her to do to satisfy him and spontaneously branded a Thai army general in charge of border security “one of those on the opposite side” during her exposed telephone conversation with him was evidently tantamount to an act of treason to Thailand, according to the scholars-led appeal.
Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court is tentatively scheduled as soon as the upcoming Tuesday (July 1) to consider whether or not to take into account a separate petition lodged by a group of senators against Paetongtarn for allegedly perpetrating a severe breach of political ethics and evident honesty as well as committing a sheer betrayal of trust of the Thai people whilst handling the sustained Thai-Cambodian border dispute.
In case that the Constitutional Court resolves to accept it, the judges in charge will consider whether or not she may be ordered by court to stop running the country pending a court ruling on her allegedly treacherous act.
Nevertheless, oblivious to such an unrelenting legal battle, Thaksin’s daughter insisted that she continue to run the country as normal and, under guidance of her stealthy power-playing father, quickly formulated a new lineup of cabinet members of the Pheu Thai, core of the current coalition, and the coalition partners, including the Ruam Thai Sang Chart, Klatham, Democrats, Chart Thai Pattana and Prachachart with eight ministerial seats currently left vacant following last week’s withdrawal of the then-second largest coalition partner Bhumjaithai from the Pheu Thai-led government.
It remains to be seen whether the new cabinet lineup will be formally endorsed by the monarch to precede the probability that the woman prime minister might be suspended at the order of the Constitutional Court from doing her executive duties in regard to the senators’ impeachment motion filed against her.
Besides, the formal endorsement by the monarch of the newly-named cabinet members notwithstanding, the embattled prime minister would be denied by law the subsequent opportunity to bring them to oath-swearing rituals during a royal audience if she was suspended by court from running the country.
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