Thailand's opposition Democrat Party has decided to lodge a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and several members of his cabinet within the current extraordinary parliamentary session, said the party's leader on Sunday.
Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said the party planned to submit the censure motion to House Speaker Chai Chidchob so that it could possibly be put in the floor debate within the current extraordinary session, scheduled to last until the end of this month, the Thai News Agency reported.
Abhisit claimed that the People Power Party-led coalition government had deliberately slowed down the 2009 Budget Bill until the last week of this month only to avert the censure debate.
The Opposition leader said the planned censure debate, which isto be followed by votes of confidence will be lodged on grounds that the premier and several of his cabinet members had failures which he said should be considered detrimental to the country and the people's interests.
All Democrat MPs were obliged to sign the no-confidence motion at parliament on June 17, he said.
The Democrats' latest move against the Samak government emergedafter the premier had earlier rejected the call for him to endorsean earlier-sought general debate which might have been scheduled under the constitution's article 179.
Samak earlier has explained that floor debate on the budget bill would likely be such a time-consuming session that there would be no time left for subsequent debate.
Source: Xinhua
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