BANGKOK, 9 April 2014, – The Center for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) is currently collecting evidence against the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC)’s core members for supporting their leader’s plan to claim sovereign power.
According to Chalerm Yubamrung, the Director of the CAPO, the plan to reclaim sovereign power announced by Suthep Thuagsuban, the Secretary General of the PDRC, is unconstitutional. He is convinced that the public would not accept the government assembled through a non-democratic method.
Mr. Suthep has declared that the PDRC would gain sovereign power and that he would personally seek endorsement from His Majesty the King for a new prime minister.
The CAPO’s team of spokespersons concurred that the speech made by Suthep on April 5th implied a clear sign of his attempt to abolish democracy under constitutional monarchy, adding that the move is in violation of Section 113 of the constitution. The center thus appointed the Department of Special Investigation to seek legal action against Suthep and 58 other PDRC core members for treason.
