Conflicting parties should avoid making references to the monarchy as it could be socially divisive, says Privy Councillor and former prime minister Surayud Chulanont. His remarks come as the Democrat party tries to have PM's Office Minister Jakrapob Penkair impeached for a speech allegedly expressing doubts about the monarchy.
Mr Jakrapob delivered his speech in English at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) on Aug 29 last year while Gen Surayud was prime minister of the coup-installed government.
Gen Surayud said he has not met ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra since the coup. But he said he and Mr Thaksin were like brothers at pre-cadet military school, although they held different political ideologies.
Meanwhile, the Democrat party will submit a petition to the Senate seeking Mr Jakrapob's impeachment on Wednesday.
Democrat party spokesman Ong-art Khampaiboon said the party has gathered evidence about the minister's speech and believed he should be impeached for his remarks.
The Democrat party earlier handed a letter to Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, asking him to look into Mr Jakrapob's attitude towards the monarchy.
Mr Ong-art said that after the speech at the FCCT, Mr Jakrapob went to Los Angeles where he spoke in Thai to an audience on Nov 10. Mr Jakrapob's intentions behind the speeches were questionable, he said.
Mr Jakrapob's comments reflected a hostile attitude towards the constitutional monarchy, said Mr Ong-art.
His party wrote to the prime minister about Mr Jakrapob's conduct because it wanted Mr Samak to pay attention to the attitude and ideology of his ministers.
Campaign for Popular Democracy secretary-general Suriyasai Katasila called on Mr Jakrapob to show responsibility for his speech.
Mr Samak should remove the minister from cabinet and set up an inquiry into his comments, he said.
Mr Samak had distanced himself from the matter and told the Democrat party to file a complaint with police instead.
- In my comment : Oh my god, Surayud is a good boy of Gen.Prem chief of privy council, its one of silly fake action in Thai political scene, everyone have known that Democrat Party was backed up by Gen.Prem to those movement include Chuan's movement. Please! leave the politician to do their duty alone.
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