Corruption has inflicted untold damage to the country’s competitiveness, spreading like a neverending plague, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said yesterday, urging all sectors of society to unite in rooting out graft.

“As government leader, I know politicians have been joint suspects,” he said, conceding that he was not satisfied with the anticorruption fight in the past two years under his watch.

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