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1st LD: Former Thai PM Yingluck impeached over controversial rice scheme

Xinhua, January 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) on Friday for dereliction of duty in a controversial rice subsidy scheme.

The decision was approved by a vote of 190-18, with eight abstentions.

Yingluck, 48, was banned from politics for five years.

Former Senate Speaker Nikhom Wairatpanich and former House Speaker Somsak Kiatsuranon survived a separate impeachment against them, with votes fewer than the required 132 in the 220-seat NLA.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission had recommended the impeachment against the two politicians for their role in passing an amendment to change the composition of the Senate in September 2013. The amendment was later ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court. Endi