Samak presents heads of three minor parties in coalition, fears Sonthi pushing EC to disqualify many of its winners
Published on January 1, 2008
People Power Party leader Samak Sundaravej yesterday announced the formation of the coalition with 254 House seats and left the door open for the Chart Thai and Puea Pandin parties to the coalition to well over 300 seats at a later date.
"I hope the coalition alliance will stop the malicious attempts by an individual out?side of politics to cause an upset to the voting outcome and derail the chance for the People Power to form the next government," Samak said.
Samak said he had brought forward the press announcement from January 4 in a bid to foil what he termed as plans to undermine his party's victory.
He said the conference aimed
to show the public they were
ready to form a government - and to tell people there were moves afoot to block People Power taking office.
Samak claimed a minister who talked about an "invisible hand", was trying to stop the formation of the government. He was referring to PM's Office Minister Thiraphat Serirangsan, who gave an interview to one newspaper.
"The invisible hand wants to block us from becoming the government. It makes me see a 'man' clearly," Samak said.
He said a clear example was a policeman who works for the Election Commission. He was in charge of the investigations
into electoral fraud and familiar with the People Alliance for Democracy.
Samak said he regarded his coalition as still having 254 MP seats because the process to invalidate three winning PPP candidates had not been finalised yet.
"Even we have 251 MPs it is enough to form a gov?ernment," he said.
Flanked by his party secretary-general Surapong Suebwonglee, Samak said he was certain of leading the next government. He made the remarks in the presence of his three coalition partners - Pradit Pattaraprasit of Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana, Anongwant Thepsuthin of Matchima Thipataya and Uraiwan Thienthong of Pracharaj.
"I would not be sitting here if I was not sure I have successfully formed the coalition," Samak said, in reply to a direct question whether the alliance might falter. He said PPP would still welcome other parties to join the coalition. About 50 party supporters attended the press conference.
Three parties' representatives said they had agreed to join the coalition because the PPP had won the election.
"The majority of people voted for the PPP, so we have to respect the peoples' voice," Pradit said.
Anongwan said it was an honour for her party, Matchima Thipataya, to join the coalition.
And Uraiwan said her party, Pracharaj, was pleased to support the PPP in a coalition government. Party leader Snoh is presently in India.
A source from the PPP said they held the urgent press conference ahead of the issuing red and yellow cards by the EC, which is expected to happen on Thursday. They wanted to gain the upper hand over Banharn, because the Chart Thai leader was still undecided on whether to join the coalition.
"We want to tell him [Banharn] that we can form the coalition government without the Chart Thai," the source said.
PPP spokesman Kuthep Saikrajang said the party wanted to tell people they feared an attempt to block PPP from forming a government by issuing many red cards.
He admitted the announcement was to give peo?ple confidence, even though some winning MPs in Buri Ram province had received red cards.
Kuthep also criticised Democrat Party secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban who said on Sunday he expected the Election Commission to dis?qualify dozens of PPP candi?dates, and give his party a chance to take office.
"It is up to the Election Commission whether to give red cards or not. This was an attempt to block us from forming government," he said.
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Published on January 1, 2008
People Power Party leader Samak Sundaravej yesterday announced the formation of the coalition with 254 House seats and left the door open for the Chart Thai and Puea Pandin parties to the coalition to well over 300 seats at a later date.
"I hope the coalition alliance will stop the malicious attempts by an individual out?side of politics to cause an upset to the voting outcome and derail the chance for the People Power to form the next government," Samak said.
Samak said he had brought forward the press announcement from January 4 in a bid to foil what he termed as plans to undermine his party's victory.
He said the conference aimed
to show the public they were
ready to form a government - and to tell people there were moves afoot to block People Power taking office.
Samak claimed a minister who talked about an "invisible hand", was trying to stop the formation of the government. He was referring to PM's Office Minister Thiraphat Serirangsan, who gave an interview to one newspaper.
"The invisible hand wants to block us from becoming the government. It makes me see a 'man' clearly," Samak said.
He said a clear example was a policeman who works for the Election Commission. He was in charge of the investigations
into electoral fraud and familiar with the People Alliance for Democracy.
Samak said he regarded his coalition as still having 254 MP seats because the process to invalidate three winning PPP candidates had not been finalised yet.
"Even we have 251 MPs it is enough to form a gov?ernment," he said.
Flanked by his party secretary-general Surapong Suebwonglee, Samak said he was certain of leading the next government. He made the remarks in the presence of his three coalition partners - Pradit Pattaraprasit of Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana, Anongwant Thepsuthin of Matchima Thipataya and Uraiwan Thienthong of Pracharaj.
"I would not be sitting here if I was not sure I have successfully formed the coalition," Samak said, in reply to a direct question whether the alliance might falter. He said PPP would still welcome other parties to join the coalition. About 50 party supporters attended the press conference.
Three parties' representatives said they had agreed to join the coalition because the PPP had won the election.
"The majority of people voted for the PPP, so we have to respect the peoples' voice," Pradit said.
Anongwan said it was an honour for her party, Matchima Thipataya, to join the coalition.
And Uraiwan said her party, Pracharaj, was pleased to support the PPP in a coalition government. Party leader Snoh is presently in India.
A source from the PPP said they held the urgent press conference ahead of the issuing red and yellow cards by the EC, which is expected to happen on Thursday. They wanted to gain the upper hand over Banharn, because the Chart Thai leader was still undecided on whether to join the coalition.
"We want to tell him [Banharn] that we can form the coalition government without the Chart Thai," the source said.
PPP spokesman Kuthep Saikrajang said the party wanted to tell people they feared an attempt to block PPP from forming a government by issuing many red cards.
He admitted the announcement was to give peo?ple confidence, even though some winning MPs in Buri Ram province had received red cards.
Kuthep also criticised Democrat Party secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban who said on Sunday he expected the Election Commission to dis?qualify dozens of PPP candi?dates, and give his party a chance to take office.
"It is up to the Election Commission whether to give red cards or not. This was an attempt to block us from forming government," he said.
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