Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is expected on Monday to mount her defence against negligence charges linked to a controversial rice subsidy scheme that could presage her removal from office and a ban from politics. BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is expected on Monday to mount her defence against negligence charges linked to a controversial rice subsidy scheme that could presage her removal from office and a ban from politics. Yingluck has been summoned to appear before the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) by Monday after a bid to push back the deadline for her defence was rejected. She could face an impeachment vote in the upper house of parliament within weeks. The scheme, which paid farmers above market rates for their crop, has become a lightning rod for anger from her political opponents who have massed on Bangkok’s streets for months in a bid to topple her government. They allege the subsidy scheme punched a hole in Thai finances, battered the country’s rice producing industry and fostered massive corruption — all to shore up Yingluck’s rural electoral base. The NACC filed charges against Yingluck in February, saying she had ignored warnings over the subsidy scheme. The embattled premier has… Read full this story
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