"Yingluck" confident of her innocence despite electoral complaints against her

BANGKOK, July 13 (TNA) - Would-be next Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra from the Pheu Thai Party insisted on Wednesday that she is not worried over the Election Commission (EC)'s decision on delayed endorsement of her MP status, saying that the election agency has taken its normal steps of work and she believes the EC will ensure justice, as she can answer all questions.

In response to journalists' question whether the issues could shatter her dream of being Thailand's first female prime minister, Yingluck said that it had not happened yet. The 44-year-old leading Thai businesswoman-turned politician acknowledged that the EC legally has 30 days, after the country's July 3 general election, to confirm the status of all elected MPs and she hopes that the election agency will treat her and her Pheu Thai Party fairly.

Yingluck expressed the confidence following the EC's decision, publicly announced late Tuesday night, not to endorse her MP status yet due to a complaint from Dr. Tul Sitthisomwong, a leader of the multi-colored group filed with the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), seeking the country's anti-graft body to investigate her alleged perjury in a share concealment case of her elder brother and exiled ex-Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra and another complaint, among some others, filed by the yellow-shirt People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) seeking the EC to investigate Thaksin’s roles in the Pheu Thai Party although he has been suspended from politics for five years under a concluded judicial case.

Yingluck affirmed that Thaksin have only given advice, but all final decisions depend on her Pheu Thai Party's executive board. (TNA)