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March 28th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Anti-corruption authorities in Thailand have rejected a request by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to extend a deadline to defend herself against negligence charges.
The rejection came on Thursday while the premier’s legal team had asked the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) for 45 more days to prepare its case.
“They did not allow it because they said our reasons were not logical and we have had enough time already,” said Norrawit Larlaeng, one of her lawyers.
Yingluck is set to appear before the NACC by Monday. She has been charged in connection with a controversial rice subsidy scheme, and could face an impeachment vote in the upper house of parliament within weeks.
According to the NACC, the Thai prime minister had been warned of corruption allegations and financial losses linked to the policy, but did not heed.
Meanwhile, Norrawit said Yingluck believes that the investigation has been rushed, adding that the defense team had not been given the chance to review the evidence against her.
Under the rice scheme, the Thai government has reportedly bought farmers’ crops for the past two years at prices up to 50 percent higher than world prices.
However, the policy damaged Thailand’s rice exports, with critics saying that the scheme is too costly and prone to corruption.
The critics also accuse Yingluck’s family of taking advantage of taxpayers’ money to buy the loyalty of rural voters through such policies, but she said she was merely trying to improve the lives of farmers.
Thailand held a general election on February 2 in an attempt to curb anti-government protests, which were triggered in October 2013. However, on March 21, Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled the elections disrupted by anti-government protesters invalid.
The protesters say Yingluck should step down so that an unelected “people’s council” could enact reforms.
Opponents see the premier as a proxy for her elder brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister toppled in a coup in 2006. The ex-premier has been in self-exile since 2008 to avoid a two-year prison sentence.
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