At 13:00 hrs. Mr. Tharit Pengdit, Secretary-General of the Center for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO), briefed the press on the outcome of the meeting of the CAPO earlier in the day, gist as follows:

1. The Director of CAPO is of view that the besiege of governmental offices have tremendous impacts on the life hood of public servants. He will call for a meeting with permanent secretaries of all ministries this afternoon. The meeting will discuss security measures and solutions relating to prosecuting the PDRC's leaders who besieged government offices. Prosecutions of those who besieged the government offices could base on four guilty pledges, namely invasion, intimidation, damage of property, and violation of the CMPO’s announcement on prohibition of entering or departing the reserved areas.
The CAPO wished to reiterate its continuation of prosecuting those who besieged the government office, which have negative impacts to the society.

2. The CAPO has received a report from the Metropolitan Police and Provincial Police regional commands regarding the legal proceedings against the election obstructions. So far, there are 194 cases involving election obstructions (51 cases in Bangkok and 143 cases in other provinces) and 178 cases involving the failure of electoral officers to perform their duties (66 cases in Bangkok and 112 cases in other provinces). 201 persons already faced arrest warrants.

The CAPO reaffirmed that it will continue the process of investigation and prosecution against actions of members of the PDRC that had violated the law in various occasions particularly the elections obstructions. Today, the CAPO has received a report on the case against Mr. Suthep Thaugsuban, and 58 leaders of the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) who have violated the law and caused difficulties for the public by instigating the protesters. Investigation officers have decided to include their wrong-doing on blocking the election with their previous allegations. The CAPO will follow up with the prosecution on these individual closely and hope this could set an example in preventing any attempt to blockage in the upcoming election.