Writer: BangkokPost.com
Published: 15/08/2009 at 02:29 PM
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva disclosed on Saturday that he had assigned acting police chief Pol Gen Wichien Pojphosri to take responsibility in maintaining peace and order on the petition day.
Mr Abhisit said he had directed the acting police chief to come up with measures to prevent supporters of the United front for Democracy against Dictatorship from confronting with the blue-shirts, supporters of Newin Chidchob, leader of the Friends of Newin faction inside the Bhumjaithai party.
The red-shirts plan to present the petition for Thaksin pardon to the Office of His Majesty’s Principal Private Secretary inside the Grand Palace on Monday.
On the same that the Supreme Court, located nearby the Grand Palace, will rule on the corruption case involving Mr Newin and 43 others over the Agriculture Ministry's purchase of 90 million rubber saplings between 2004 and 2006. Mr Newin was deputy agriculture minister in the Thaksin Shinawatra administration at the time.
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