I will table amnesty bill next week, says Chalerm

Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung said yesterday he would push for a national reconciliation bill for Parliament's deliberation next Thursday.

Chalerm said he was delighted that as many as 149 Pheu Thai Party MPs endorsed the bill with their signatures. Since the bill has received overwhelming support, he said, he wants to table it for House deliberation next Thursday.

Asked if the bill he is pushing would enable ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to come home, Chalerm said it depends if Thaksin wants to return because the bill does not mention Thaksin by name.

Chalerm said he was confident that the opposition would not dismiss the legislation, as it had with other versions of reconciliation bills. He said it aims to grant amnesty to concerned people involved in political incidents from 2006 to the Pitak Siam group rally in Bangkok in November last year.

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