Thailand's Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Thursday that Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratklin would be removed as chairman of the national committee to fight vote buying if the Election Commission (EC) rules that he is biased against the People Power Party (PPP).
Surayud said he was awaiting a ruling of the EC before making a decision on Sonthi's chairmanship of the anti-vote buying committee.
Recently, the PPP filed complaint with the EC that Sonthi, the former Army Chief and the former head of the Council for National Security, had issued a confidential document, instructing the army to pick on the PPP to try to prevent it from winning the upcoming general election on Dec. 23.
However, Surayud was quoted by local media group The Nation as saying that the government would handle the issue with impartiality.
Source:Xinhua
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