Former Thailand Premier Yingluck Shinawatra impeached:Former Thailand Premier Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached on 23 January 2015 by an army-backed parliament. The impeachment was followed by the ban of the Yingluck Shinawatra from politics for five years.Yingluck is the first Prime Minister to be impeached by parliament in Thailand’s history. The impeachment was a result of an allegation for failing to stop corruption in rice-pledging scheme. The motion for impeachment was started in National Legislative Assembly. 190 of the 219 members present for the secret ballot voted in favor of impeaching Yingluck Shinawatra. 18 members voted against the impeachment, 8 abstained, and 3 votes were spoilt.Yingluck was accused of dereliction of duty in her government’s rice-pledging scheme, which Thailand’s national anti-graft agency said cost the country 500 billion baht in damages due to mismanagement and corruption.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 06:44:36 +0000
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