17 April 2014
At 13:00 hrs., the Center for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) informed the press on the outcome of the meeting of the CAPO earlier in the day, gist as follows:
The CAPO is a special security unit, established under the Internal Security Act of 2007 with a mission to administrate security forces including military, police and civilians to maintain peace and orders in Bangkok and its vicinity. With its comprehensive information, the CAPO expected there will be violent confrontation in Bangkok area as a result of mass rally by the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) and other groups. The expected mass rally will be held in responding to the upcoming Constitutional Court ruling on considering the status of the Prime Minister over the transfer of Mr. Thawil Pliensri, Secretary-General of the National Security Council (NSC), and the NACC Commission to indicate a fault in the rice mortgage scheme.
If the Constitutional Court rules that Prime Minister Yingluck has violated section 266 of the Constitution by transferring Mr. Pliensri from his Secretary-General position at the NSC, then the entire cabinet would be removed from the office as stipulated in section 180 of the Constitution. However, the section 181 of the Constitution still allows the members of the Cabinet to perform their duties until the next Cabinet resumes its duty.
Nevertheless, it is expected that the Constitutional Court ruling will exercise their ruling beyond the basis of the Constitution, and to decide to ban the current Cabinet to perform its duty in accordance with the Section 181. This is an attempt by the PDRC and some other groups to create a political vacuum which would lead them to refer to section 3 and 7 in nominating the new Prime Minister and the new Cabinet. The UDD and other groups will not accept any ruling by the Court and NACC that is far beyond integrity of the law.
The CAPO is deeply concerned that such rulings could instigate more conflict and lead to confrontation. The CAPO wished to urge all organizations to work and uphold impartiality to reduce any possible conflict and bring back situation to normal. The CAPO wishes to urge all the concerned parties to engage as follows:
1. NACC: to consider the Prime Minister’s case on the rice pledge scheme based on facts, law and without discrimination. NACC shall comply with the ethical standards as a cornerstone of their duties.
2. Constitutional Court: with respect to the Court, the CAPO urged the Court to base its ruling on fairness. The decision to transfer Secretary General of NSC was under the purview of the Prime Minister and that should not be interfered. If the Prime Minister is pledged guilty in violating section 266, the Court should not rule that the Cabinet has to be removed and cannot perform its duty as allowed by section 181 of the Constitution.
3. The Cabinet: if the Constitutional Court decides that the Cabinet cannot exercise its duty under Section 181, then the Cabinet should ask His Majesty the King to grant his opinion if the Cabinet should still perform its duty. The CAPO is of the view that it is not the purview of the Constitutional Court to make such a ruling itself by violating section 181. Section 181 is an important principle of the country to prevent a political vacuum in administering the country.
4. Election Commission: to urge for convening of early election for the House of Representatives in order to have the new administrative body, then the conflict and demonstration will be ended. Partial behaviors of some election commissions are unacceptable and constitute a criminal offence.
5. PDRC and UDD leaders: to urge all parties concerned not to support the public gathering and urged the leaders of both sides to bear in mind possible impacts from the major rally. If the leaders of both sides still insist in instigating for the mass rally, they should be held in accountable for their actions.
6. Head of Government agencies: to work it utmost to ensure their agencies to provide services to general public. They should discourage any of their subordinate in participating in any activities to support any political group that has committed any legal offense.
7. General public: to refrain from participating in the political rally whether it is PDRC, UDD or any other groups. Amidst sedition and political manipulation, the CAPO wished to urge the general public to exercise their careful judgment.
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