Move Forward has plans to tackle business monopolies and remove generals from politics. Read more at straitstimes.com.
on Tuesday said he was willing to slow the pace of his party’s ambitious reform agenda if he forms a government but would not retreat from its plan to amend a law prohibiting royal insults.
“It was absolutely expected, the same thing, same venue. Broken record. But the sentiment of the era has changed,” he said in the interview. The party’s plans to tackle business monopolies, end conscription in the military and remove generals from politics are controversial, but none more so than its aim of changing article 112 of the criminal code, which punishes insults of the monarchy by up to 15 years in jail.Mr Pita faces more obstacles on Wednesday, when some senators will try to block his second nomination for prime minister, arguing a motion that was not endorsed cannot be re-submitted.
Its boldest aim is to change article 112 of the criminal code, under which hundreds of people have been charged with insulting the monarchy, which carries jail terms of up to 15 years.The military has for decades invoked its duty to defend the monarchy to justify intervention in politics. Critics say it has used the law against royal insult to stifle dissent.
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