On 9 July, Anand revoked an executive order appointing the supreme commander as director of the all-powerful National Peacekeeping Force. In effect, the Force no longer existed, although the appointed Prime Minister preferred to leave it to an elected government to scrap the National Peacekeeping Act. Interior Minister Pow Sarasin indicated that his ministry was ready to take over internal peacekeeping duties, and the armed forces voiced their full support for the government's decision, with a spokesman describing Anand’s move as "timely and appropriate. The Prime Minister also called for the military's secret budgets to be made public at some future time, but the Defence Ministry was cautious.