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Court finds Thailand's PM Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of violating constitution

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Court finds Thailand's PM Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of violating constitution
FROM: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-07/t ... ct/5436798

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Photo: Ms Yingluck also faces an investigation by the country's anti-corruption panel into a controversial rice subsidy program. (AFP: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)

Thailand's Constitutional Court has found prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of abuse of power, a verdict that could deepen the nation’s political crisis.

The court ruled Ms Yingluck violated the constitution when she transferred the National Security Council chief Thawil Pliensri in 2011, which opponents say was designed to benefit her Puea Thai Party.

Ms Yingluck has been ordered to step down from office.

Nine cabinet members implicated in the violation must also be removed from office, the judge said, while others can remain as ministers.

There are fears the verdict will destabilise security in the capital, Bangkok, with government supporters, known as the Red Shirts, vowing to protest on the streets.

Among other charges Ms Yingluck faces is one of dereliction of duty over a state rice-buying scheme that critics say is riddled with corruption and has run up huge losses.

These charges were brought by the National Anti-Corruption Commission, which is expected to deliver its ruling later this month.

If found guilty on this count, Ms Yingluck could face a five-year ban from politics.

Thailand has had a caretaker government since December and anti-government protesters have disrupted the city for six months.

Both Ms Yingluck's supporters and the anti-government protesters plan large rallies in and around Bangkok next week.

The protests, since November, form part of a long-running crisis that broadly pits Bangkok's middle class and royalist establishment against the mainly poor, rural supporters of Ms Yingluck and her brother, ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

Mr Thaksin was ousted by the military in 2006 and now lives in exile to avoid a jail term handed down in 2008 for abuse of power. His opponents accuse him of corruption and nepotism.


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